Good Morning List Members. I have been thinking again so look out. Never in the history of mankind have we been in position to leave as much visual record material for future generations. With the coming of digital imaging and the CD and DVD disks it couldn't be easier. All that would be required would be for people in the future to keep moving the records into the next higher technology. The idea that I have involves Rutherford and maybe Cleveland Co., NC. I am sure all of you are familiar with PC Slide Shows and I have the software for one that permits you to add a narrative with each picture. When it is placed on a CD it has folders with all the picture files and all the sound files. They are in .jpg and .mp3 format. If they both carried the same filename they could be easily redone later into some other form. What I am offering to do is to do the PC work and put CD's together with about and hour to maybe as much as two hours per CD. The main drawback is you would have to listen to me do the narrative and this could take some getting use to. Of course, you could make and attach an .mp3 file of your own narrative and I would put it on the CD. Here is what you would have to do. You would need to send me, by E-mail/attachment, .jpg photos of old places, things, people, etc. You would also need to send identification of what, who, where everything is. By the way, something that we all should do anyway is to explain on the back of our photos who, what and where everything is. Also put dates on them if possible. If you wanted your own narrative on the disk you would need to send an .mp3 file of it also. I would ask that you keep the attachments to only about a maximum of 1 meg. I am only considering Rutherford Co., NC at this time and I am asking for your input as to the feasibility of doing this. When I had received enough photos I would build the CD and let our Genealogy Society handle the distribution of the CD's. I would think that the cost could be kept between $10 and $15 plus shipping. As everyone knows, there is just no way to keep something like this for free as is my webpage. This would only pertain to old stuff and things that were already gone such as any old buildings including churches, schools, stores, mills, old people, etc. This is just an idea that I feel could be very helpful for future generations of genealogists and historians. Please let me know your thoughts on the idea and would you be interested enough to send old photos. This is not meant to be a profit seeking venture by me. It will only cost me time and money. The society would be the only entity making a profit but the future generations would profit from have this available and being able to have a glimpse of the past. Feel free to ask me any questions about the project. Talk To Me, Bill