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On Your Own - How to Design And Construct A Family History Book to Inform And Captivate Readers
On Your Own How to Design And Construct A Family History Book to Inform And Captivate Readers Author:Elayne Denker, Stephen Denker This book discusses in practical detail how to design and construct a family history book - its layout, and especially its aesthetics - what to include - organization of subject matter - ways to prepare, repair and enhance documents, images and other research materials for publication displaying records (e.g., censuses and ship manifests) too la... more »rge to fit onto one page. It provides numerous full-color design examples to illustrate techniques and options. There are lots of tasks you're going to be doing yourself regardless of how you go about producing your book. There are many professional editing and book design firms to help you do the job. But they all cost money and have specific templates they prefer to use. This path can be both expensive, time consuming and unnecessary. With today s personal software and digital printing vendors, taking a DO-IT-YOURSELF approach to the entire process, including the challenge of trying to produce beautifully edited attractive pages is an alternative worth considering.« less