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CAWTHORN
FAMILY MEMORIES
About the Logo Picture, I wanted to tell a story with a few pictures. The four pictures represent eighty years in time from 1927 to 2007. The first picture is of the prairies west of Calgary near where John and Violet purchased property to start a farmstead. The second image is the home the Cawthorn children were raised in, except for a few years at Twin Bridges until Father died in 1944. The third picture is Mom's new house in the final stages of construction almost totally built by her son Ben. The final picture is Violets home just after she passed away.
I hope all visitors enjoy the material posted on these pages. I am assuming there are a few family members who may want to archive some or all of the this family information. It would be a sin to not have this information available to future generations. The original information will be given to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary where it will be available to the public. The web pages are not guaranteed to be available for eternity so it is important to preserve what we have. That being said the web pages are a super way of sharing this material with all Thomas and Margaret Cross's living descendants using the Internet.
Please feel free to post comments on any of the pictures in the Picasa Slides or the MSN Photo Albums. Anyone who has old pictures to share on any of the themes, just scan or use a camera to make a digital copy and email them to me and I will upload them to an album.
Email me: johnfromdv+family @ gmail.com (no spaces)
My list of family contacts via email will not reach everyone, so I'm relying on those that find this web site share it with family members by forwarding it to all that may find it of interest, including the Stuckey and Cross families.
It is hard to say if and when the Internet main search engines will pick up any of the Cawthorn Family Memories pages to make it searchable. With my experience it takes anywhere up to 4 months for the web crawlers to list any new sites. My advice would be to return to the Home Page and save the web address to My Favourites in Internet Explorer or Bookmarks it in Firefox or other web browsers.
Saving files to your computer:
All text type of material is easy to save to your computer. The Adobe pfd files once opened can be saved to My Documents by clicking the <Save> icon and choosing a folder to save the document.
The plain text stories (eg. Across the Wide Blue Sea") can be saved to a word processor or Wordpad on any PC. Select all the text by holding the left mouse button and dragging from start to end of the story, release mouse button. Hold pointer on the selected area and RIGHT click, choose <Copy>. Open the Word Processor and RIGHT click and <Paste>, Name the file and save to a folder in My Documents. I may double post these stories in the Adobe PFD format on the same page for easier saving later.
Saving images to your computer:
Saving images from the Picasa Slide Show is not completely successful if wanting images in full resolution. Saving them in the regular show will work but when using the enlarger to see the original size, the menu for "Save image as.." is not available. To over come this problem I am going to "Upload" the images to another server (MSN Photos) where they can be viewed and saved in full resolution. You will not see the tags in MSN Photo but the tags will be available in Picasa (see Irfanview below)
The images that are in MSN Photos can be saved easily by, opening them to the largest size by clicking on the image until it shows on it's own web page, RIGHT click on the image, choose <Save image as...> and choose a folder in My Documents and <Save> .
Another tip: If you use Irfanview picture viewer/editor on your computer, when the picture you saved in My Documents is displayed with Irfanview, touch the "i" key then the "c" key and you can read the picture comment (tag) information.
If you do not have Irfanview it's about time you did. I have used it for years and it's a simple, powerful picture viewer/editor. I use it to do all my pictures from my camera or downloaded images. It's FREE to download, no advertising, pop-ups, it's clean. See link on Cawthorn Family Memories in the right panel for link to download. After the install go back to the download site and get the Plug-ins to complete the install.
If you need any help with this let me know.
When I have everything compiled I will burn these files to a CD/DVD and share with all who want copies. The costs are small and the treasures are huge.