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From: Firebird <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] ELAN services
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:00:03 +0100
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The Quineys wrote:

> In theory, once I find information and images, I can e-mail them back
> home for future use. I cannot vouch for this as I haven't had the
> opportunity (a free morning!) to use the system yet. I would be
> interested if anyone *has* been able to send info back home from an
> Essex library pc.

When I've found information in Ancestry at my local library and mail
the images home, I've found that all that's arrived is a link to the
image, not the image itself. I've yet to be able to open one of the
links. I don't know why this is, but I can take a flash drive (aka
thumb drive) with me, I can plug that into the library's computer and
download the information and images directly to the drive which I can
tuck in my pocket, take home and upload onto my machine. You can pick
up a 2gig flash drive for around 10GBP, 4gig for around 15GBP (that's
as big as the hard drive on my old computer!!) and 8gig for around
20GBP. The 4gig flash drive I have is about 3" long and ½" wide.

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