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After years of carefully researching and assembling a family history, many genealogists find that they want to make their work available to others. For most of publishings history, if an author wanted to selfpublish, they had to invest. Oct 05, 2012 writing a book about your family or your genealogical research can be a major challenge, but it is just the first step in getting your publication out to your family and other interested people. Ten steps to writing and publishing your family history. Rereading your familys history will likely become a new tradition that you all can do over the holidays or when youre all finally able to be. Lulu is a popular and relatively inexpensive no frills printondemand book publisher used by many genealogists. Watch your family tree come to life when you print a genealogy book. I included pages such as acknowledgements etc, but havent mentioned these here. Sell your book in the blurb bookstore, through amazon, or in the global retail network of over 38,000 retailers, libraries, and schools. Ubuildabook memoir book autobiography family history.
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