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H. NORMAN GOULD - MY DAD - 1971 |
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| MRS. H. W. GOULD - MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER - 1936 |
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| MARIE W. GOULD - MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER - 1960 |
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| ROY V. GOUL D - MY PATERNAL GRAND UNCLE - 1942 |
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| HARRY W. GOULD - MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER - 1936 |
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| FORD VAL GOULD - MY PATERNAL GRAND UNCLE - 1917 |
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| RICHARD H. HUDSON - MY 5TH GREAT GRANDFATHER - 1856 |
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| JOSEPH A. MILNE - MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER - 1936 |
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| JOSEPH A. MILNE - MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER - 1956 |
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| FLORENCE L. MILNE - MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER - 1956 |
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JOSEPHE E. CORNELIUS - MY STEP FATHER - 1946  |
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| GORDON C. HALL - MY HUSBAND'S FATHER - 1958 |
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| DOROTHY F. HALL - MY HUSBAND'S MOTHER - 1958 |
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| RICHARD GILLESPIE & ELIZA PATTERSON - MY 2ND GREAT GRANDUNCLE & AUNT - 1854 |
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CORA E. HALL - MY HUSBAND'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER - 1918  |
My most prized signature is that of Bernard Romans. For a while I was collecting signatures of my male relatives from their Draft Registration cards. I'd use them in place of a photo on their profiles. I stopped doing it and now wish I hadn't. Great to see someone else had the same idea. :)
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DeleteI love collecting my ancestor's signatures. I have more, just need to get them added on here. If that's all I have, the. I've used them as profile pics too. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
I love the idea of using the signature as a profile picture, even the ones where the ancestor's signature was an X. What is the best/simplest way of taking them from digital images?
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DeleteNot sure how I kissed your question about the best way to capture the signatures. But, here's what I do. I create a copy of the document, like the draft card. Then I use a photo editor and crop the signature and save it. I use Microsoft Office Manager 2010, which has a photo editor. It's a very basic, simple and easy program to use. I also have Adobe Elements, but don't use it for the everyday simple things like this. I'm sure you could also use Paint, which comes with most PC's. Or at least it used to.
Thanks for the question and sorry I missed it.
I love the idea of using the signatures as the ancestor's profile picture. What is the best/easiest way of clipping them in a digital image?
ReplyDeleteCes - I use Microsoft Office 2010, which has an editor. It's very easy to use. You could use any picture or document editor to accomplish this. Say I have a draft registration card or something else with a signature, on the computer of course. I first make a copy so the original is preserved. Then I just crop signature and save it. I have a digital folder with each surname just for signatures. But, you could store them wherever you wanted. I wrote a post about easy document editing. It's listed on the right hand side of this blog, 4th one down, under Popular Posts. I really like have an ancestor's signature too. Have fun collecting them.
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