Abraham Ladick: Have you already researched your family history? If so then you have all the material required to write a book if that is what you plan to doThere are lots of genealogy books available for reference take a trip to you library, but if this is something you want to do then you will have ideas about how you will do it
Damion Oleksa: http://www.cyndislist.com/books.htmThere are TONS of genealogy related books, not only on how to research, but published family histories have been around since before computers. Main stream computers have only been in use since the 80s, and the internet since the 90s (there were computer services before that such as compuserve). Since you have indicated not yet researching...just an insight... all original genealogy records pre 1980s were not done on computer. Think about it. In fact, the early materials on how to do research are actually more valuable since they told you how to find ORIGINAL sources (ie court records, la! nd records, etc). If you back up on cyndislist, I just gave you the area on books. There also is a major section on the basics of doing research. Another good tutorial is at www.rootsweb.com. You have mentors here daily to assist you...both getting started and new issues along the way. You can't write it until you have the material.One specific thing to share. Once you have material, you have to CLEARLY DEFINE who/ what you are writing about. "Your genealogy" is massive. Your family includes all your ancestry. One line I work decided to write a book about the descendents of one explict couple. My advice at the time was to define a clear ending point, and not attempt to include living people. Over my advice, they "voted" to include all descendents. Every time the cousin states a "cut off"point for people to send their bios, family, etc..2 months later, someone finally gets in touch with a 12 page contribution, and of course, wants that included. This book started 20 yrs ago.! It isn't finished, and people are angry with the "author". Wi! th good reason. They contributed early on, and author cannot keep up with it. It will never finish. There are changes to it every day..people being born, divorced, dying, etc. Privately, author has admitted to me that he wishes he had listened regarding cut off at the gr-grandchildren of the couple (all who were dead and "complete" back then). A book must have a beginning and an end that is understandable. But first, let's get you going on the research....Show more
Mel Crapo: Look athttp://genforum.genealogy.com/ca/stanislaus/messag...To get it, I entered a lot of data into Roots Magic ($29), then, when I'd reached 1850 or dead ends on all the lines, told RM to print "Ancestors of" report. The one I posted is abbreviated, because I didn't print the notes.You'll find the prose style mechanical.In RM - and any other genealogy program worthy of the name - you get space for a biographical note. In RM it can be 32,000 characters per person. That's where you'd put the inte! resting stuff.You start with yourself. You work back one generation at a time.Or, you start with your earliest known ancestor and find all of his/her descendants.The basic points to look for are birth, death and marriage date and place, spouse's name, children. Anything more than that - occupation, religion, political affiliation, military service, education, immigration year, residence, amusing anecdotes - is gravy.Once the data is in a genealogy program, you can run "Ancestors of" or "Descendants of" any person, at any time. Some of the reports will be shorter than others, of course. Those two are just two of the hundreds you can run. Formatting the reports is minor; the one I posted took less than 60 seconds. Accumulating the data may take you hundreds of hours.> There are no genealogy books available for reference...Do you mean1) No one else has written a book on the genealogy of your family?2) You can't find "History of the Smith Family" in a library to see how other p! eople have written a book about their families?3) You can't find "A Gui! de to Researching your Genealogy" in your library, on-line or at Amazon.com?If (1), fine; you will be the first, and many of your cousins will thank you. If (2) or (3), you haven't looked very hard....Show more
Nicolasa Henke: I am a hands on person, when it comes to genealogy research. Go to this website:www.genealogy-research-tools.com and get started with your research. Go to the family first page and start with yourself, then backwards you go. You will enjoy handson better than playing on the internet. By doing your genealogy research you will soon discover so much information and you will have a better idea how to do a book. Research comes first....Show more
Chris Wilczewski: Call up your nearest Mormon church. All of them have what are called family history centers and are open to the public. They have vast resources.
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