With the volumes of data you have, I'd suggest a few things. I was also more focused on the artefacts eg baptism, census, marriage, death records and wanted them to be front and centre. Worked for me, as I wanted a resource where someone could just pick it up, go to a chapter which was a branch and go through each of the ancestors. Other: Newspaper articles/Military/Work etc Then I did a couple of pages for each ancestor. I put an index and a family tree at the front of the book, then separated it into chapters based on the main surnames/branches in my tree. Photos I put in a chapter at the back of the book. I have seen some books that were really just a narrative story with everything jumbled together and it soon becomes hard to work out who is related to who.

I had produced a previous book of stories, so kept them out of this book, though I could have incorporated them as a section at the start of each chapter. I wanted to keep it to the main branches of my ancestors, so no offshoots or sibling lines. I printed off 8 copies probably around $20 a copy. I used Microsoft Word to put together the information, then converted to PDF and uploaded to to print to a hard cover book. I printed my research into a book for my family at Christmas. It's a small gesture but seriously, respect peoples' time & effort in helping you out. It's perfectly OK to ask for any info if you're looking for fresh leads, but you can help people to focus their efforts & look at the correct sources if you are more specific.

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