I save a copy of every document I use in my research. At least I try to.
Why download a copy? I will always seek to download a copy of the document so that it will be available as part of my research and remain accessible. This is, in a way, part of my disaster recovery plan under the item of what to do if the archive takes things offline.
A few years ago I searched for a marriage record from 1896 Prague.
An excellent Facebook group helped me locate this record and provided me with a link to the record on the Vademecum website. However, it is not possible to download a copy of the document from this website.
To those of you reading this and questioning why not just take a screenshot my response is that the quality of a screenshot is lower and so if I would need to enlarge the image in order to read it at times it becomes unreadable.
I have been asking people if they have found a way to download images from Vademecum for a while now.
At last, there is an answer 🙂 A new website has recently come online Zayt.
I have a link to the record on VadeMeCum how do I find the image on Zayt?
Zayt will take care of this for you. Simply go here: Zayt › Collections
Paste the link into this box and click “Find”.
How to save an image once you have found it?
- One option is clicking on your mouse (right-side) and saving the image.
- Another option is to use the options of the site as shown below
Start by clicking on the … (marked in red in the image above), then select download as PDF.
