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Publish your family history : preserving your heritage in a book / Susan Yates and Greg Ioannou.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Genealogist's reference shelfPublication details: Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 2010.Description: 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781554887279 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Preserving your heritage in a book
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.593 23
Summary: Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then Publish Your Family History is for you. It will tell you all the fundamentals of book production, together with the important details that distinguish a home-published book from a homemade one. You'll learn: how to get your manuscript ready for production; design ideas for the pages and the cover; methods of making pages with or without a computer and printing those pages quickly and inexpensively; and ideas on bindings that last and look great. Even if time is at a premium, you're not comfortable with computer technology, or the budget is tight, you'll learn how to publish a professional-looking family history of your own!

Library and Archives Canada CIP info. on t.p. verso. C2009-907465-6.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then Publish Your Family History is for you. It will tell you all the fundamentals of book production, together with the important details that distinguish a home-published book from a homemade one. You'll learn: how to get your manuscript ready for production; design ideas for the pages and the cover; methods of making pages with or without a computer and printing those pages quickly and inexpensively; and ideas on bindings that last and look great. Even if time is at a premium, you're not comfortable with computer technology, or the budget is tight, you'll learn how to publish a professional-looking family history of your own!

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