Publishing the Genealogy Project

Now that all the research work has been done on the genealogy project for Art's mom's family, we needed to preserve our work.  The first thing that Art did was to burn all the information on DVDs.  We saved our digital album in pdf as well as jpg files.

Almost all the photos have information in its Properties.  This is something my brother taught me.  If you right click on your photos, it will take you to a menu with Properties at the bottom.  If you click on Properties, it will take you to another menu with Details.  Clicking on that you can click on Comments and write information about that photo.

 We decided to also make one hard copy to show all the relatives on Saturday at the family pot luck.

We'd taken our National Parks travel album to Office Depot to be printed last month and wasn't happy with the results.  Many of the photos were too dark to see the details.

My photographer friend, Dave recommended Aiea Copy Center.  I wish we'd known about this place two years ago.  The photo pages were so much better... maybe a little on the lighter side than we would have liked, but loads better than Office Depot or Kinkos.  It was also a ton cheaper.  $5.00 to open the file and 29 cents a color page after that.  Office Depot had a special for 35 cents a copy, but it's usually 49 to 79 cents for a color copy.

Our file was so large that it was taking longer for the Copy Center to upload it.  Therefore Art and I decided to go to the Ice Garden for a treat while we waited.  This was also at the Aiea Shopping Center so we just walked over.

Art had the taro topping.  I had the custard and cream.   Unlike other shave ice places, this place is all about the toppings although they make the regular stuff too.

After finishing our treat we went to pick up the copies.

As you can see, it's not a fancy place, but we saw that they'd won the Star Advertiser award for Best Printing Place for several years in a row.

Very pleased with the copies and with ourselves, we headed home and started planning the presentation for the family project.

We stopped at Longs Drugs and picked up a Pioneer Digital Photo Album that holds 8.5X11 inch pages.

I made a cover photo for the DVD jewel cases.  We put DVDs for each family into paper bags with a label and put the photo pages into the digital album.

Now we'll need to plan our speech for the family to explain how it was all done, what we learned, and how the DVD is structured.

We  have quite a busy week ahead of us.  We've got a birthday party tomorrow to host and then this Genealogy pot luck on Saturday with lots in between.

I'll have a bit of a breather and then... on to Art's dad's family.