Publishing Family History Books

Publishing Family History Books

Free online workshop to learn skills and strategies for finally getting your family history book published.

Are you dreaming about publishing a book about your ancestors and family history?

Have you got grandchildren or great grandchildren and you want a powerful, nurturing book for bed time stories?

A custom family history book that tells the stories of your parents, grandparents and their parents gives those kids a way to absorb and engage your family’s unique ancestral creative energy. For those kids, knowing the stories of who they came from could likely give them positive encouragement and real role models that might just benefit their lives.

The purpose of this free 60 minute online workshop is to support you or your parents during the process of publishing your family history book. You’re welcome at this workshop at any stage in the process, even before you get started. You’ll find this workshop useful if you are going to self-publish or have someone else do the work for you. The correct way to digitize old paper photos so they look great in print.

 

At this interactive workshop you’ll learn about:

  • How to sort all your family history materials for a book project
  • A simple technique to actually make your family tree useful
  • The secret to efficient (but not endless) research
  • The correct way to digitize old paper photos so they look great in print
  • The easiest way to organize your digital assets
  • The simplest way to gather family history stories for your book
  • Two tried-and-true storytelling methods
  • Ten essential and easy-to-create components in a family book
  • Printing, sharing, selling and shipping

Download interview Tools

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  • Life Story Questionnaire [PDF]
  • Family Tree Chart
  • 110 Interview Questions (Optional)
  • Generic Sentence Completions