Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-06 Thread Cathy
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 woul

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-06 Thread John Carter
Create PDF versions of each of the reports/charts and show them to other family members. Some people prefer the line-and-box charts, some want text, others want a verbose narrative. Some want source details, others just want the "people" parts. You can't please everyone, but you can find out whic

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-08 Thread Christine Pearce
m: [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

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-08 Thread Alice Hawrilenko
helps. Alice - Original Message - From: "Christine Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 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) w

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Montgomery
TECTED] On Behalf Of Christine Pearce Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book >>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 other

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-08 Thread Jess M
enealogy > 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 Beh

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-09 Thread Pat Hickin
er 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on publishing a book

2007-10-09 Thread Susan Daily
Christine, I am currently in the finishing stages of publishing a family history book using Legacy. What I have done is used the Descendants Narrative book to output to a RTF file, which I will then go through page by page to make the text more fun to read than a long list of events. I begin the b