Hi Paul and everyone.
What an insperation and highly movtivating suggestions you all have made.
I have been striving to be able to detail every aspect of every person in my family tree, which as of today contains 1077 Lock(e)'s not including the extended familys. I was waiting until the day I could document every person in detail, so that there were no unaswered questions in the future, but after reading Paul's emails, I see that I am after the unachievable. Better to get it out there and be able to publish updates later. Many of my insecurities, hesitations and questions have been answered on this list, thanks. I have been published in national news letters before, so why I have hesitated I do not know. Attention to details held me back I guess.

My plan is, to get the family book finished and make a CD(s) avaialble with the book, which will contain every document we have collected and scanned to CD to be used along with the book. Other wise, the book would be huge if I published the documents within the book. I am guessing there are well over 200 documents, maybe more. I think that is in part my "Key" to the story Paul, being able to show the many records we have collected as part of the never ending story.

 Many years ago, I started a book which is off topic for this list, but I never finished it. Now I am motivated to get it completed too! :)

Thanks for all the great suggestions.
 I think todays moto should be Get to Gettin! lol (get it done)
Don
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> > 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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