"How To Create Your Own Genealogy CD-ROM Disks" will be an overview of the hardware and software required to place your genealogy data onto CD-ROM disks, suitable for distribution to others. I will also discuss the pros and cons of the various electronic publishing formats, such as text files, word processing documents, HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, etc. I will mention cross-platform compatibility issues; you probably do want to have your data available to Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users. I will also discuss ways to produce large quantities of disks and will tell how to create labels for your CD-ROM creations. Some of the information I will present has been described in past newsletters. However, I also plan to add quite a bit of new material that I have not published before.

I will have handouts during the presentation. These handouts will be on CD-ROM disks, not on paper. These CD-ROM "handouts" will contain all my presentation materials plus examples of each of the publishing formats discussed. I will also include a list of references to obtain more information about the topics presented.

See you in Boston. Again, the GENTECH2002 conference starts with Librarians’ Day on 24 January, followed by two days of the regular conference, 25^-26 ^January. I get to bat in the "clean-up" position with my presentation at the end of the conference at 5 PM on Saturday afternoon, the last day of the conference.

• Read the next article in this issue.
  
• Return to the previous article in this issue.
  
• Return to the Table of Contents