Your Family's History: Research, Write And Publish It

Description

A great starter for new family history researchers plus valuable advice and information for people who want to move to the next stage: writing and publishing their family's story. Expanded from lectures given by John MacGibbon at the National Library of New Zealand.

Table of contents

Part one: doing the research -- Your family and other people -- New Zealand Society of Genealogists -- Family history societies -- Genealogy courses -- Libraries and archives -- Researching on the Web -- Special interest internet groups -- Books and journals -- Genealogy software -- Supporting acts: backing up, a blogsite and Evernote -- Part two: writing the book and sorting out the graphics -- Limit your horizons ... really -- What will confuse or bore your readers? -- Footnotes and bibliographies -- Plan your book content -- Assemble and sort your research material and notes -- Preparing your graphics -- Getting down to writing -- Do a family timeline -- Do an index - please! -- Publishing the separate family tree -- Part three: publishing and promoting your book -- Doing it yourself: General tips -- How many should you print? -- Legal deposit -- Bar codes and ISBNs -- What you need to give your printer -- Using an established publisher -- Promoting and selling your book -- Index.