>  Paul
>  This is such a timely topic for me.  At the moment, I am trying to put
>  together an interesting family book.  But the layout is driving me nuts!
>
>  I am one of 24 cousins.  We are united by our grandparents, who had 8
>  surviving children; who then had the 24 grandchildren.  I am trying to do 
> a  book on just our common grandmother.  I have completed the lineage for 5
>  generations of this grandmother's ancestors. 

I understand, and can only say again that the best and time-proven 
approach is to write of your direct ancestors, from your parents back, or 
from the earliest in that line down to you, develop the story about those 
folks, and then - probably a tad later - develop the collaterals.  So, take 
that GMaw, develop her story throughout her life, then next do her child 
who is your parent, then and only then move to the siblings of GMaw and 
then the siblings of your parent.

 Considering the large number of folks in that line, I would develop many, 
 if not most, of those collaterals in your appendices.  You simply must 
 limit and set forth each generation in such a fashion that even the most 
 casual reader will be able to follow your thread and find it interesting. 
 Paul


>  Paul
>  This is such a timely topic for me.  At the moment, I am trying to put
>  together an interesting family book.  But the layout is driving me nuts!
>
>  I am one of 24 cousins.  We are united by our grandparents, who had 8
>  surviving children; who then had the 24 grandchildren.  I am trying to do 
> a
>  book on just our common grandmother.  I have completed the lineage for 5
>  generations of this grandmother's ancestors. 




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