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Shortening Old Fulton New York Post Cards URLs

Shortening Old Fulton New York Post Cards URLs

So, you’ve found an article on Old Fulton New York Post Cards (https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html) and it’s time to create the citation. What do you do with the long URL that refers to the highlighted image returned by search? Shortening the URLS Here’s a way to come up with a shorter URL by working some search-and-replace magic: First, copy the big old long URL to a word processing document. You can get it by right-clicking a sidebar image link. It will look…

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New Pages Feature: Add Title and Caption to Images

New Pages Feature: Add Title and Caption to Images

I just downloaded an update for Pages, word processing software available for use on a Mac, and one of the new features is the ability to attach a title and caption to an image with a couple of checkbox clicks. I’m pretty psyched. Creating genealogical reports in the software just got easier. So, how does it work? First, make sure you have the most recent version of Pages. I’m using 10.1 (6913). Next, open a document and insert an image….

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Finding Alternate Surname Spellings for Index Searching

Finding Alternate Surname Spellings for Index Searching

There’s a death date and place mystery associated with the surname “Macaluso” that I would dearly like to solve. And, there’s a microfilmed index that might help me solve it. But, it has to be skimmed the old-fashioned way and the name I’m looking for doesn’t appear under the obvious spelling. Before I leave the index behind, I want to make sure I’ve been thorough, so this morning, I tried to see if I could come up with a comprehensive…

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Create Booklet: How Did I Live Without It?

Create Booklet: How Did I Live Without It?

I’ve been using a computer for little publishing projects for as long as I’ve had a computer and back in the good old days (that would be, say, the 1990s) trying to create a multi-page booklet was quite the puzzle. I remember cutting little sheets of paper and folding them into a page-numbered mock-up so that I could see which pages need to print side by side and back to back. And then I’d move the text around in the…

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Save Time and Energy with System > Keyboard > Text > Replace/With

Save Time and Energy with System > Keyboard > Text > Replace/With

I don’t remember who it was that clued me in on the System > Keyboard > Text method of typing long phrases with a few keystrokes, but whoever it was — thank you! I’ve set up a few combinations and it’s saved me lots and lots of typing. I’m not lazy, by the way; I just like to be efficient. So, here’s what I mean. As a genealogist, I have need to type “Family History Center” over and over and…

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