Software Feature
Scrapbooks, Pictures and Graphics

How to Use the Scrapbook Feature

Many of the GSPs now on the market feature an area called *Scrapbook*. This utility allows you to store pictures and graphics that you or others have scanned into files for use on a computer. Some even contain scanning ability from the GSP.

Bells And Whistles


Everyone knows what pictures are, of course! But the exciting thing about scrapbook is the ability to store scanned documents as well. Birth certificates, wills, death records, your kid's first drawing, etc. can all be scanned in and stored in the scrapbook.

Some GSPs will print your pictures linked to the individual on some reports, like the Family Group Sheet. Some will print an album of pictures with data on the individual.



But My Program Doesn't Have a Scrapbook Feature

Do not despair. Those GSPs that have scrapbooks do not print pictures or graphics to the Family Register Report (book) and this is where most people want their pictures and graphics of documents to appear.

You can store pictures and graphics in an outside file and then insert them, as well as biographies and histories, into the Family Register Reports when editing them.

When you evaluate a GSP for the *bells and whistles* look at how you can use the scrapbook feature, and if you want those pictures and graphics in your Family Register, evaluate GSP's capability to print the Family Register in an editable form.

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