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Digital | Basic Format Elements-click for more links | Font | Header/Footer | Page Numbers | Indexing | Layout | Margins | Photos | Title | Insert Items

Do add other things besides text!

Books can be dry facts, or the most wonderful and engaging non-fiction historical account. However, it's always nice to "spice up" the text with other items.

Basic ideas include:

	family photos - portraits, candids, and/or snap shots
	photographs of the place
	Historical photos from local, regional or national archives
	artwork - drawings, paintings, sketches
	maps
	clip art - historical and decorative design elements such as dividers

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	documents/letters - to go along with transcriptions
	keepsakes
	different bullets (this page is an example)

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General text items beyond your data:

	Family stories
	Family statements/memories from several different people about one member.
	This date in history...
	Factoids, did you know, and "trivia"
	newspaper items - both actual news and advertisements
	"academic" history - history that influenced but not directly touched the family
	Insert Items such as sound recordings, video, mini-archives, etc...

Some interesting items we has seen go into genealogy and family history books include: WWII Ration book and what was left of the family stamps, listing of cemeteries (and locations) in the book, advertisements from family business, personalized maps, Railroad Card, photos of boot camp (including the bugler), military unit and group photos, documents, etc.  Anything that someone may have (or currently do today) kept in/for a scrapbook should be considered.

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This area will be growing, so check back often. If you have a suggestion, let us know and we may just publish it here - crediting the source, of course!

For more suggestions on this subject and more, order our book:
G550-$20.00 WRITING Family History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit Complete Edition, by Gregath Company, Inc., 2011. ISBN: 978-0-944619-00-1, 8½x11", softbound book, 132 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project for the typist and/or computer user. Note: All G prefix books 100 pages or more, this one included, that are SB can be special ordered in Library Oversewn Hardbound version - contact for details. Also available on disk. | Click here for more information.

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