New examples of book design have been posted in photos, documents, fonts and maps.
New Book Design Examples Available Friday, Mar 13 2009
Book Design and Updates book, design, document, example, font, map, photo, photograph, sample 3:28 pm
February 2005, V4#2: Production Wednesday, Jan 28 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine additional, book, CD, digital, document, envelope, extra, GEDCOM, hybrid, information, mixed media, photo, photograph, picture, printed, scan, spindle, value added 4:15 pm
Include all your photos in a hybrid “printed” book: For the author that would also love to see every photo available in print – a book with accompanying CD may be the answer. Select the “cream of the crop” to be printed into the actual book. The CD – which can be attached to the book via envelope or spindle – can contain a wealth of digital information. Photos galore and/or original document scans, GEDCOM files, author notes on theories, etc.
September 2004, V3#9: Design Wednesday, Jan 28 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine black and white, CD, color, design, document, edition, expense, family project, keepsake, labor of love, lifetime, little cost, mixed media, numbered, option, photo, price, quality book, work 2:27 pm
Top Design Ideas that COST, and some options that don’t: In today’s economy, there are lots of suggestions devoted to producing a quality book with as little cost involved to the author as possible – this issue is no exception. However, many family projects are the culmination of a lifetime of work, many times where the author has been setting aside funds for publication for years. Additionally, as a labor of love, some families can’t put a price on such a keepsake. This month we’d like to offer a few suggestions if “money is no object” – and ways to make the book look that way.
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Have a sheet for each book that is the edition number. Each book will be 1 or 100, 2 of 100, 3 of 100, etc. (more economical – have a page “_____ of 100″ and hand number in the blank once you have books.)
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Add a photo, document, notes, etc. CD to the book. Printing black and white photos? Include the color on on CD, etc. The CD is a cost saver due to the fact that you don’t have to pay for the color printing, nor printing for everything you can stuff on a CD.
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See Book Manufacturing Concepts V3#9 Production
January 2009, V8#1: Computer Thursday, Jan 8 2009
Computer & Software and Electronic Magazine document, file, form letter, Microsoft, MS, template, update, Word, XP 5:21 pm
working with templates in Word (see also V5#5 and #11)
Do you have correspondence that is often times similar? Are you working on reports or a book? If so, making template files can save you a lot of time. But what about updates? Instead of typing in the dates every time, set the template for this year, or even this month. At the end of that time, update the template and save it as a different name such as “coverletter1-09″ instead of coverletter. Once this is done, go into the template area and clean up – right click the old file and choose delete. Sorry, templates won’t let you save over the same file name, nor will they allow for a rename from the right click/shortcut menu – at least in XP and older versions.
January 2008, V7#1: Genealogy Wednesday, Jan 7 2009
Electronic Magazine and Genealogy archive, book, Colorado, database, document, genealogytoday, image, Internet, online, regisary, stamp, surname, war ration 6:42 pm
The Registry of War Ration Books, including 83 Canadian books can be found at the link below. For those of you not familiar with food rationing, during World War Two the government issued ration stamps in books to each family member. There were four series of books, and there was a
complicated maze of instructions (typically published in the newspaper) as to which stamps were valid at any given time.
Prior to this project at Genealogy Today, the largest known private collection of ration books was a 900-book collection housed in Colorado. The registry was approaching 5,000 books (early October 2007), and is expected to double again in 2008. In addition to the books being collected,
contributions from visitors to the web site are helping expand the database and ensure these interesting genealogical documents get properly archived.
To view the images, visit this page and search for surnames:
Index of War Ration Books
http://genealogytoday.com/guide/war-ration-books.html
September 2005, V4#9: Genealogy Tuesday, Jan 6 2009
Electronic Magazine and Genealogy computer, connect, cost, document, friends, fuel, gas, Internet, network, price, proof, research, trip, US, usgenweb, volunteers 2:22 pm
Don’t forget as fuel prices rise and we turn to our computers more and more, to document. Sometimes there is no substitute for a research trip. Sometimes volunteers, such as the network at http://www.usgenweb.org can help.
September 2004, V3#9: Genealogy Sunday, Jan 4 2009
Electronic Magazine and Genealogy ancestor, census, church, county, document, fraternal, local, material, newspaper, organization, reference, research, search, source, state 10:19 pm
Many people when researching forget to use reference materials in concert. While this sounds strange, sometimes it doesn’t even cross their minds. Example: Found the ancestor in the census but that year doesn’t have everything you want (or you prefer more than one documented source) – look in other state, county, and local records as well as local newspapers. Could they have belonged to a local church or (fraternal) organization? Don’t leave these out of the search!
April 2004, V3#4: Genealogy Sunday, Jan 4 2009
Electronic Magazine and Genealogy agricultural, alternate, census, document, era, federal, period, proof, record, state, time 10:09 pm
Have you checked out alternate Census options? Don’t discount all census that were taken – in addition to state and federal options there are/were agricultural, etc. at different time periods.
