

How to Get the Most Out of the Pictures and Stories Blog "Novelize" Your Family History Story - Live (sort of) from RootsTech 2020

Even though I have my photos pretty well organized on my computer, I like to have stuff on a piece of paper I can scribble on. Whatever you call them, contact sheets can be a big help in keeping track of what photos to use in a life story or family history book/project.

Select it, then tick the “Always use this app to open files” box.Have you ever thought how handy it would be to have a printout of itty-bitty pictures, with their filenames, of all the photos in a particular file? Photographers call them "contact sheets " the ones you get with your photo prints from Costco are called "index prints. Now when you right-click an image file and select “Open with” and “Choose another app,” you’ll see that Windows Photo Viewer is once again there as an option (possibly after clicking “More apps”). Once saved, navigate to the new reg file in Windows Explorer, right-click it, and finally click “Merge.” Next, click “File -> Save as” and save it as a “.reg” file, similarly to how we did in the picture below.
