If I were doing this with PowerPoint, since not everyone has MS Office with PowerPoint on their computers, I would include the free PowerPoint VIEWER from MS on the CD...... Rebecca > 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