Why Create A CD?
What are the advantages of compiling a life history using a computer and putting it on CD?
- Once one copy is made, you can easily make as many copies as you want.
- More copies can be made from any one of the existing CDs.
- With all of those copies in the possession of your family members, it is unlikely that anything could become permanently lost.
- A CD is Small and portable. The CD shown on our home page contains:
- The 8 X 11, 275 page life history of Loretta’s parents (with photos inserted)
- About 1,000 separate photos
- A photo viewer
- The program that Jefferson wrote to organize the whole project on CD
- 27 written, smaller ancestor histories
- 12 short video clips of Loretta’s parents telling some short interesting stories
- Some space left over to which we are adding updated pictures and short histories when we make new copies
- If your history file is made into a PDF format for storing on your CD, then you can take this same file to the printers and have them print a fairly inexpensive soft bound book for those family members without computers. Of course this same file could be made into a nicer more expensive hardbound book also.
- Because you are using a computer you can:
- Insert paragraphs as you remember them later
- Combine the text with the photo album and make the story come alive
- Eliminate using lots of paper
- Easily make backup copies of your work