I will use a book publishing company that does “Print on Demand.” How does this work? You create your book, lay it out, format it to their specifications (so nothing gets cut off at the edges), etc. and submit the book to them. They figure up how much it will cost them to print and add their profit, price the book, and list it for sale online. They only print books when they are ordered, so there is no need to commit to purchasing 500 books or anything like that. This book will be available to order for anyone who is interested in it, once I complete it of course.
What I am currently working on:
- Gathering resources, including previously written books like The Trent Family Tree, The Greene Family, Hancock County TN and its people volumes I, II, III, etc. and asking permission to use them as a source, and resources like U.S. Census records, civil war records, newspapers, etc.
- Researching our ancestors and following our family tree to write our genealogy.
- Scanning photos and documents from family scrapbooks and organizing them for use in the book and sharing with other relatives
- Finding graves of as many ancestors as possible so we can list burial places to visit
- MOST IMPORTANTLY, scheduling interviews with people to records stories and memories of our family and asking people to share pictures, information and family stories with me
- Creating a map of old home places and looking for an old map of Luther, Tenn.
- Making a timeline of family events against some local, state, national, and global news such as wars, flu epidemics, etc.
- Sketching a tentative outline for the book
Creating Our Family History Book 