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FleurGreer

FleurGreer Report 28 Jul 2015 21:07

I have lots of information gathered on all sides of families. I would love to collate it all with a tree, census'. births, marriages and deaths etc. I was thinking of a book format with all evidence that I could pass on to family members as gifts.

Is there anywhere that offers templates, instructions etc? Got the idea in my head but don't know how to take it forward.

Thank you in advance

Jacqueline

Jacqueline Report 28 Jul 2015 21:29

A lovely idea, but may I just say............

Before you go to the trouble, make sure that the intended recipients would be interested

Hardly anyone really cares about family history, and it would be a shame to invest a lot of your time, effort and cash if it wouldn't be truly appreciated

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ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 28 Jul 2015 22:01

if you search online for "family tree book" or similar, you'll find several possibilities.

Something like this? :

http://tinyurl.com/qbgtn7h

Or this one has more pages, though pages are slightly smaller:

http://tinyurl.com/pz9nsec

Or this:

http://tinyurl.com/oscdj6r

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic6718.html

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 29 Jul 2015 13:36

I did something simikar for a cousin who was totally uninterested in his famiky history, he even sent me all his photos to keep!!

So, I sat down collated all my info, attached photos and put it in a small folder. Sent everything, including his photos, and all mine of his family (all scanned to my computer). I was even able to put names to all in his grans (my grans sister) wedding photo. And names to 3 men whose photos had some cryptic info on the back.

To day he was both impressed and really found all the info interesting would be an understatement, he will never get into famiky history resrarch but he and his dister now know so much more.

And some years ago his sister asked me if I could find their half sibling born a few years before their mother married. Well it turned out their brother had been looking for his birth family for years and had all but given up when he spotted a post of mine on Curious Fox. Well when we contacted each othervand he seht a photo of himslf to me, he could have been my cousins twin. Glad to sqy that 2 years on, the brothers and sister are meeting and contacting all the time. One very happy ending. <3 <3

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 30 Jul 2015 19:20

Welcome to the Community boards FleurGreer.



I will let FleurGreer know how to find her replies :-)

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FleurGreer

FleurGreer Report 30 Jul 2015 20:04

Thank you. I will look at the links above. I know some of the family would like to know more although not into searching but like to know what I've found. I can pinpoint certain relatives who will be pleased to have all the information I've gathered in a readable format.