Registering with Footnote
Before you can open up your world to the infinite possibilities and knowledge you can gather on Footnote, you need to sign up as a member. To register with Footnote, first you need to choose an account type. There are generally two memberships you may select from, the free membership and the all-access premium membership. Below is a description of the similarities and differences between both account types.
The rates for the all-access membership may be paid on a monthly basis or annual basis. At Footnote, premium members have a fee of $7.95 per month, or $59.95 per year to have unlimited access to all contents of the Footnote site. There are no restrictions to which images you may view and download as well as print. With the all-access pass, you may also share the images you download with members of your network, or even save them in your personal gallery for favorites.
The above mentioned options for premium photos are unavailable for free memberships, as the account limits viewing and downloading to free images only. If you want more freedom for researching and viewing the needed historical data you are looking for, perhaps a premium or all-access membership should be the choice for you. Furthermore, payment is easy with Footnote, as they accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover. You need not fret about a thing as all payments to Footnote are 100% secure.
Here are some similarities that members of all-access accounts and free accounts can both enjoy: They can make a search query and browse the lists for images and documents. Each member is allowed to create personal story pages in which he can provide text along with photos and links. All members can provide or upload their own personal images to the Footnote database, may it be old family photos from albums, birth certificates, news clippings, posters, and many more.
Plus, as a member of any of the account types, you can annotate, make comments, or make notes on images of fellow members as well as their story pages. Because Footnote also prides itself as a social networking site, you may also view member pages and profiles.
If you still are not sure about how to go about Footnote without taking a test run, you can opt to sign up on a free membership first. This helps you gauge what benefits you can gather from joining, uploading, and searching through the collections of historical documents on Footnote. The steps to registering an account are easy to follow, and in no time you are ready to view a piece of history as shared by the numerous members of the Footnote community. Here are some tips on opening or registering an account on Footnote.
- Choose a username that is easy to remember. Your username should have 4 to 15 characters, including only letters and numbers.
- If you need to check on the availability of the username, Footnote provides a convenient button to let you know if your choice of name is okay.
- Decide on a password for your account. Like your username, make sure that this is something that you can easily remember. Try not to keep the password very similar to your username.
- Enter all the additional details and make sure they are typed in correctly, especially your email address. Don't forget to provide an email address that is functional.
- When you are done registering, simply wait for the confirmation mail to arrive in your inbox.
You can now use your username and password to log in to Footnote. When you are logged in, you cannot create a new account unless you sign out. Should you wish to open another free membership account with a different username, you need to be logged out of Footnote. If you want to upgrade your free membership to a premium all-access membership, you need to be logged in, and simply click on the upgrade link.
As easy as that, you are ready to access photos, documents, and various historical data that are just clicks away. You will find out more on how to make search queries on certain files, images, documents, and more later.
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