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Create a shareable CD for your family using Legacy Family Tree

You've worked hard to collect and document your family history. With Legacy Family Tree's new Create CD feature, you can now easily share your precious findings with others.

With a few simple clicks, you have the choice to include your ancestors' photographs, video clips, and even your Legacy family file. Pick from a pre-designed layout, and the software can even create buttons for your email address and favorite web site.

Best of all - the Create CD feature is available FREE to all users of Legacy. Here is an example of the resulting CD menu:

Instructions

1) To create your CD, first open Legacy. Then click on the Create CD button in the main toolbar. (Make sure you have installed Legacy's latest update.) If you have not yet downloaded our free Create CD software (which is a special, free edition of our add-on software, Passage Express), Legacy will prompt you to first download and install it.

2) Next, decide if you want to include the entire Legacy family file, or create a subset of it. If you are creating a CD for the wife's side of the family, then select the "Create a Subset" option where you can then specify to only include her side.

3) Follow the steps to give your project a title, an author, and decide what you want to include on the CD.

4) Once the CD is designed, click on the Test Project link to see what the CD will actually look like when your family member inserts it into their computer.

5) When you are satisfied, click on the Publish button.

Just like that, you've created a family heirloom!

If you want to really customize the CD and pick from other layouts and designs, the deluxe edition of the CD-creation software, Passage Express, is also available. Learn more about it here.

Announcing a New Look for Passage Express

The Jefferson Project has just released a new update which simplifies the process for creating your multi-media projects.  You can create a beautiful project in 3 steps:

1. Build Your Project
2. Design a Menu
3. Publish Your Project

Each step is clearly defined.

Optional features such as making a matching disc label or making a DVD menu are found on the ‘More Options’ link.

Passage Express is an easy-to-use, one-stop publishing package specifically designed to help you organize your records into an eye-catching multimedia presentation.  Use the Legacy import feature to create a project almost instantly.  These presentations are created for Windows computers where any file that you have included in your presentation can be easily accessed, saved or printed by those you share your presentation with.  These shared presentations also become wonderful off-site backups in case you lose your copy.  You can include histories, pictures, audio recordings, video clips and genealogy files to be displayed all on the same presentation.  Passage Express is unique in that any computer file can be added to your presentation.  Buttons on the menu can be customized to access the files individually, by folders or one button can access the whole project for the viewer to peruse.  The recipients do not need to own Passage Express to view your presentation.

Passage Express is intended for the average computer user, and goes to great lengths to ensure the highest quality and simplest operation possible.  Passage Express has a project import feature which allows for collaboration with others who also have Passage Express.  Even easier to use is the finished presentation - place the CD-ROM into your computer or slip a DVD video of slideshow movies that you have created in Passage Express into your home entertainment center, sit back, and enjoy seeing your family history come alive. We invite you to see how you can produce a Passage Presentation with ease and confidence.

To learn more about Passage Express, or to purchase, visit http://legacyfamilytree.com/PassageExpress.asp

Update Now Available for Passage Express (2.1.16)

An update is available for Passage Express. This update resolves a couple of minor bugs. Download and install the update by clicking on the Help menu, then click on Check for Updates.

Passage Express, formerly known as Family History CD, is a software program that helps you preserve and share your genealogy, digital images, and documents by publishing a professional CD or DVD that you can share with your family.

For more information, visit http://legacyfamilytree.com/PassageExpress.asp

Passage Express (Family History CD 2.0)

Do you have computer files that you’d like to share with others — maybe Legacy information, documents, pictures, audio/video clips, family trees, or other files? Why not create your own interactive, customized CD-ROM with Passage Express for Legacy? With Passage Express it’s easy to create high-quality, interactive multimedia presentations using your family’s historical materials. . . .

Passage Express is a new software product developed by the Jefferson Project, the makers of Family History CD. Passage Express’ state-of-the-art features and tools enable you to do the following and more:

• Publish small or large amounts of information in an attractive CD or DVD presentation format
• Create slideshows and documentaries complete with background music and narration
• More effectively organize and document photographs with face labels, captions and dates
• Publish genealogy data, video clips, audio recordings, histories and more
• Create beautiful graphics for your projects’ title screens, adding buttons and separate pages that will link to your files

Passage Express makes it easy to create your own interactive, customized CD-ROM . It guides you through the steps of organizing and labeling your files, and helps you design your own creative front page with buttons linking to the files. Passage Express will burn auto-run CD’s for you that will work on any Windows computer (Windows 95 or later). The features of this software make using your CD a snap. Your friends and relatives just point and click!

Passage Express makes it easy to create your own interactive, customized CD-ROM . It guides you through the steps of organizing and labeling your files, and helps you design your own creative front page with buttons linking to the files. Passage Express will burn auto-run CD’s for you that will work on any Windows computer (Windows 95 or later). The features of this software make using your CD a snap. Your friends and relatives just point and click!

With applications going far beyond genealogy, this software helps you organize your CD project. It helps you easily design your own custom front page with buttons linking to your files.

For more information, or to purchase, click here.

Special Upgrade Pricing

If you previously purchased Family History CD, you can upgrade to Passage Express for just $19.95. This special upgrade pricing is good until Wednesday, October 5, at which time you’ll be able to upgrade for $24.95.

Visit https://www.LegacyFamilyTree.net/Secure/PassageExpressDeluxeUpgrade.htm to upgrade.