Printed with prior permission from Ancestry Daily News, dated 3 Dec 2004 I have taken all the old family photographs, scanned them in their original form and also one or two cropped versions of each picture. I put them into a PowerPoint program and used either captions or voice over to identify each picture. When I had all the pictures and their cropped versions (these really bring faces up close) in the program the way I wanted them, I burned them onto a CD. I have been able to make copies of the CD and send it out to all the family. They are then able to take the CD and have any/all of the pictures developed onto photo paper if they should desire. Whether they develop the pictures, they can still put the CD into the computer and sit back, watch, read, and/or hear all they want about the family. I have written an entire family history, including 450 scanned photos of pictures and documents, using this method. Forty relatives now have this history and it cost me less than one dollar per family member for the CD, CD case, padded envelope, and postage. .. Pat Pugh Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"