favorite format or what format are you striving to create that
that, go ahead and watch these videos on how to write your
section to continue this discussion about formats that
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to consider what's the best format for you. So, what's your
maybe we hadn't even thought of? Let's utilize the comments
individuals who have taken their family stories and turn
them into historical fiction and you can go ahead and see
I'm not a creative writer but there are some talented
Now, I personally am not a fan of historical fiction because
focused let us know in the comments. Historical fiction.
of other books that we should be reading that are letter
we can use for family history. If you like this video, go
these two examples over on Amazon as well. So, take time
going on but go ahead and check out these books and if you know
post that's mentioned in the description for those services.
book is a twist on the narrative biography Chapter
help you with the illustration. So, check the show notes blog
turn them into books. I would highly recommend that
and then you've gotta bridge the gap between the two the
biography and you get two books for one ancestor. Now, some of
someone migrated to a location or maybe you have letters from
the postage stamps and the marks and things like that but
ever think that I can't put pictures in this but if you
a simplified story. It does include pictures. So, don't
have a story that lacks pictures, that's okay as well.
books are typically shorter, have larger font size, and have
so we can connect and identify with that old handwriting and
captioned photo book. You can create a recipe book. I also
books that are more simple. They typically don't want to
not the surname bakers but the actual pastry makers. So,
want to see illustrated books. There are services that can
focused on military service. If you have a railroaders, you
consider doing those type of histories. Consider making
So, some of your family histories are going to be
Domino's Pizzas, their traditional meals like I did
Book just like you would to design a scrapbook or a
same goal. The other types of scrapbooks would be the ones
You don't need a lot of creative design skills in order
really great design page, you kind of miss the boat. I know
out our blog for that but you can also use Shutterfly and Mix
you also want to include the transcriptions of the letters
mission trips. What can you do? Well, there's two examples on
could do railroad service. If you have a long line of bakers,
military service. Now, these books are available online for
but if you have a lot of recipes that your ancestors
to enjoy and appreciate their heritage and their legacy make
letters to add the historical context so we understand what's
you could do a occupational history of all of your bakers,
Cookbooks are really exciting if your family had more than
this look fabulous. Those will be all mentioned in that show
books where essentially, it's a photo album with the captions
elements. Let me advise you not to go hogwild in
are some companies that can help you design this and make
occasionally you add include scanned images of the letters
think of more digitally creative. Telling little bitty
read books like this when they're pretty young. They do
I'm going to start a war on that but the point is you want
one person, then, you can start seeing how different stories
whole life story. It's just moments in time captured in
Amazon where you can investig how people use their letters to
this family constantly participated in the military
children's books. If you want to inspire the next generation
you have a a family that has a tradition of participating in
notes that I was mentioning. You definitely want to check
to do this. Now, you can have a company like this one here
You can also consider making chapter books. Now, a chapter
that when you think of scrapbooking, this is what you
the photos. If you ever have somebody say, wow, that's a
everybody have a copy of those photos? Well, no and most
heritage and family history scrapbooks are the stories and
story. Another moment in time is like my memoir about when I
Scrapbooks are fantastic. Now, there's two types of scrapbooks
made, then consider creating a heritage cookbook. Now, there
pictures. So, what you can create are captioned photo
that I will invite you to consider. One of them even
products on the page. Heritage Cookbooks. Now, Heritage
you're going to see a lot of videos on this channel about
the details that's on the back of the book on the back of the
importantly, not only want to see the images, we want to know
love and there are stories about military histories. When
you want the more in-depth story, you have the narrative
So, consider writing something for a younger audience and if
really is like a captioned photo books. So, think about
scrapbooks, layouts, colors, and things like that.
purchase. One of them is the family, the Cay Hills and how
scrapbooking. I have a lot of blog post on designing heritage
and another one is a military biography about one individual.
embellishments. The most important thing in your
and you can make multiple copies for everybody to have.
though it's not build as a scrapbooks by this company, it
stories with photos around it and a lot a bit of decorative
family history scrapbooking, heritage scrapbooking, personal
narratives. They could be in the photobiography format or
or you can use Shutterfly or mixed books to accomplish the
nurse and a pilot and in that moment in time, here's their
narrative biography has a little more text and not on
another type of story that you could write are generational
photobiography has a lot more pictures on photo paper and the
they could be in the narrative biography format but as my
more text with photos style. Now, I'm a visual person and
generations on one theme. When you have finished writing about
which will feature in a future video can help you make a
had a overlap in their life. Like in this case, you had a
letters from the war or store of letters about sent home as
create that or insert caption photo pages in a larger project
you have letters and you think what do I do about these love
overlap and then, put a book together like this. There will
could have is moments in time. Perhaps you have ancestors that
narrative biography. The difference between the
times. The narrative biography. In fact They're right there
print a narrative biography but another number of publishers
also has a lot of images. Now, I use Lulu. com in order to
to highlight your ancestors and their stories more than the
back on my shelf. I like them because they're shorts and they
to invest with and you can also get some insistence creating
part two in beauty pageants. Uh moments in times. It's not a
either a photo book narrative style or in the more narrative,
all of your photos that you have in your home. Can
description. Another type of story-focused book that you
visual. They have high quality photo paper. Wonderful projects
dot Family History Fanatics. com. You can check in the
be a link to this book that you can find on Amazon in the
a link to them in our show notes blog post over at blog
friend Lisa also put together, it is a story of multiple
description for that link. So photobiographies. They're very
such books. Now I have featured on this channel a number of
photo paper. They it use quality printing paper. Now,
photobiography and the narrative biography is the
towards this style. You give them the content, you give them
photobiography. Now, there are a lot of companies that do tend
do have a lot of text so it's like reading a novel but it
just like the company that you see the on screen. You'll find
genealogy research files. So, be fact focuses but don't just
than what you see on the screen here. It's okay to be fact
the pictures, and they'll help you create a photobiography and
I wrote talking about how to critic read a family history to
it yourself. You can hire assistance or you can
boring family history, then do something a little bit more
prints off family trees. So, I'm going to highlight
completely outsource it. So, a story-based book could be a
wonderful before we had online trees and the easy sharing of
encourage you to write story-based books. You can do
focused but this is something we did in the past and it was
think of one that looks like this. It's fact focused. It is
essentially printing out our pedigree charts, our group
good, I definitely want you to direct you to a blog post that
think of creating a family history book, we typically
better family history writer. Now, for many of us, when we
make it more interesting. If you don't want to write another
of this video for a lot of resources that can help you
sheets, and our research notes and while that is all well and
accomplish your goals as well as a playlist on how to be a
types of family histories that you could create and you
definitely want to make sure that you check the description
I'm so glad you're joining us today. So, today's topic is the
researching records and writing family histories which is why
I think you're going to be encouraged.
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