After reading the article "Seeking Out Images for Your Family History" by Juliana Smith, I wanted to add a tip.

For family reunions, I take a laptop and have my family photos on slides that I set up in PowerPoint. Each slide has one to three photos with captions telling who the people are, when they were born, where they lived, who they married, and how many children they had. Many times the photos of their children are on the next slide. I set this up and if I can hook it into the TV in the recreation room where the reunion is held, even better.

I set it to show each slide for eighteen seconds and then at the end to recycle and start over. I have found everyone at the reunion looking at it at one time or the other, even the little kids.

PowerPoint is a very user-friendly program and you can insert photos from other files with ease. Once you get the hang of it the captions are real easy. You will be surprised as to how much genealogy information you can get into those captions.

Paul

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