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Beara Historical Society

Heritage Photosite

INSTRUCTIONS FOR JOINING THE DISCUSSION FORUM AND UPLOADING YOUR PHOTOS

To join our Forum and Photosite, first register by clicking this link: - www.bhs.ie/forum then click on the ‘Register’ button at the top of the page that appears, and follow the instructions.

Please take the time when registering to add a little about yourself, connections to Beara and to which Society, Forum or School you belong. This will help others to recognise relatives and stop outsiders from trying to use our resource as a way to promote commercial gain.

You will also be automatically registered as a member to our Heritage PhotoSite.

To Upload your photos: - Go to www.bhs.ie/heritage (You may find it necessary to refresh your browser to access the new Photosite after login to the Forum)

First decide if you want to add new Albums by clicking the tab marked CREATE / ORDER MY ALBUMS.

UPLOADING A PHOTO OR PHOTOS: click on the ORANGE TRIANGLE at top of screen. This will open a drop down box where you will find a tab marked UPLOAD FILE. Click this then in the following box, select ALBUM to choose which album to upload your photos to, then click BROWSE tab to navigate to where your photos are stored in your computer. You can also upload multiple photos at once. When all your photos are uploaded click CONTINUE to add descriptions to images.

We would ask the members to only upload photos or writings directly connected with Beara: - i.e. photos of the peninsula or relatives and friends, photos by preference to be over 20 years old.

When Adding descriptions or comments to photographs, please don't include a website address/link as these seem to be affecting the Society’s position in search engines. Remember we are an entirely voluntary organisation and removing them is beginning to take up a lot of time.

(Postcards, or articles and photos taken from newspapers or books, should be over 70 years old so as not to infringe Copyright)

If you have problems uploading your photos feel free to contact the society or Email them to info@bhs.ie and we will upload them for you. Please add a description for each image, i.e. names of people, family nickname, townland, approximate date, place taken, etc. Don’t worry if you only have a part of this information, maybe others will be able to fill in some details, the important thing is for us to get as many photos as possible online and build up a photographic record of our extended Beara family for future generations.