That sounds very interesting and I expect to be at the LHSL in a few days.
Would you mind giving me the name of the author and book title so I can take
a look at it??
--
Pat
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From: "Alice Hawrilenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book
Hello Christine,
The best place to look for nicely done family history books is a library.
I found one of my ancestors in such a book at the Lancaster Hsitorical
Society Library. The book is interspersed with family history charts etc
but it is loaded with family history too. It is, quite simply, the
biography of a family.
In this book we have an introductory chapter which basically gets all the
families here from Switzerland and Germany. This chapter goes into broad
detail about the historical events that brought people here.
The chapters that follow detail the lives of individual couples placed
against the backdrop of history as history happened to them. Each of those
chapters ends with descendancy charts. The end of the book is pictures of
the family as it exists today. It's really quite well done and proves that
in the end all history is personal.
Hope this helps.
Alice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:05 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book
Thanks, Cathy, for your response. Your info on Ancestor Books and
Multiple
Lines of Descent (MLD) was useful as I didn't really understand what MLDs
are: I thought they produce lots of duplication.
I do realise that what's in my book(s) is up to me, but I'm still curious
to
see some examples of what others have done. I've only seen genealogies on
the internet and, of course, published books (typically Descendant) that
you
see, for example, published by the NEGS which are strictly names and
dates
with little/no creative flair. I've been looking at desktop publishing
sites
and sites of firms who publish books, but the examples thus far found
don't
seem to fit into the family history/genealogy scheme.
If anyone has a PDF descendent or ancestor book (even just a few pages),
to
share I'd be grateful.
Cheers,
Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: 06 October 2007 02:39
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book
Hi Christine,
Ultimately you'll have to decide what to include
in your book. And the best way to get a feel for
how it might look is to experiment using the PDF
options so you don't kill a forest when you're just trying things out.
May I suggest instead of heaps of Ancestor Books
which would overlap, that you either use a
Multiple Line of Descent (use the Pedigree View
and pick up the earliest couple/person in each line)
or several Descendant books or Descendant Narrative books.
A Multiple Line of Descent Book is a collection
of Descendant Books but where they overlap, it
stops printing the rest of the descendants of
that line as they're already present in the earlier line.
Use an Ancestor book just to highlight your
direct line ancestors. It's the descendant books
that pick up Great-Great-Great Uncle Ludicrous.
How many reports you include depends on how much
information you have in your database and how
many sources you are planning to print.
If I included all you suggested in one book, it
wouldn't be a book but several volumes ;-)
Cathy
At 09:13 PM 6/10/2007, you wrote:
Hello all.
I would like to ultimately put all my hard work
into a paper book for my family, but wonder about what to include.
I will definitely want to output to RTF and
would, ideally, like to show both my father and
mother's lines, so the "book" would basically
include all Legacy reports that deal with
ancestors. The book might then include:
* Lineage chart and/or?
* Ancestor chart and/or?
* Pedigree chart?
* Ancestor book (narrative) and/or?
* Multiple lines of descent? (not actually sure I understand what this
is!)
* Family picture tree
* Relationships report
* Surname summary
* Special text entries for stuff like name meanings, etc.
* Locations
* Family group record (although this can't be
output into RTF, I suppose they could be
inserted with blank pages when the book is output to RTF.
Is all this overkill? What would/do you include,
and how do you arrange it? Do/Would you divide
output into chapters? If so, how do you define them?
Another question. Ancestor books don't allow you
to show information about siblings of your
ancestors. For example, Great-Great-Great Uncle
Ludicrous did some pretty amazing stuff that
you'd like to include. Do you create a separate
Ancestor book for his line? For each name - on
both male and female lines would result in a lot
of books, many with duplicate information. Even
so, what charts and reports would you include in this (descendent) book?
Besides text responses to these questions, any
PDF examples of your books would be appreciated
as I've never actually seen one!
Christine
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