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From: "Tara D. Fields" <>
Subject: RE: [CHS] Presentations - slightly off topic
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:51:25 -0500
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>Does anyone know of any decent (and cheap) software to enable me to create
>CDs of the family tree that would take a non-geneologist through their
>ancestors in an interactive way, and allows pictures, video clips, voice
>files etc. Possibly self starting when the CD rom is placed in the drive.

Another great program is GED2WWW. It's fast, easy, free, and makes the web
page files from a GEDCOM so there is no program with proprietary software
formats. Using software such as NetObjects Fusion, Microsoft Frontpage,
etc. web pages with photos can be created and included on the CD. In
addition, quick and easy programs such as Irfanview or LView can take a
directory full of photos and create thumbnails of them all in one batch
process. It will then allow you to save them in a web page - with links to
the full-size images automatically created.

GED2WWW: http://www.lesandchris.com/ged2www/
IRFANVIEW: http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/english.htm
LVIEW: http://www.lview.com

As for a slideshow - Microsoft Powerpoint could also do the job.


Take care,

Tara Fields

The Crypt
Free Genealogy and History of Camden and Charlton Counties, GA
http://www.camdencounty.org

Part of the American History & Genealogy Project
http://www.ahgp.org/


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