Tying It All Together!

After you've been doing genealogy for quite some time, and you've accumulated old photos, have discovered new ancestors, new information about these ancestors, information on known ancestors and descendants, have acquired birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, census record information, oral histories, etc., you may want to think about recording this information in a Family History book. 

How do you go about it?  Well, for starters, you can type whatever oral and written family history information that you've acquired into a Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Works or Wordpad document or use whatever compatible program that you have installed on your operating system.

You can also began to scan the old photos and paper documents into your computer so that they can be incorporated into whatever genealogy software program that you decide to use.  Most of these genealogy software programs have user interfaces that are user friendly and once you have everything typed, saved, proofed and/or uploaded, you're ready to put together a family book on you and your family!  One such genealogy software package that I've used in the past is Family Tree Maker software.  For instance, it has Family History pages that allow you to record your ancestor's name, date of birth and death, marriage date, places lived, spouse information and birth of children, their marriages, spouse's names, etc. It also creates various Descendant family tree charts and Ancestor charts plus other charts and can create cherished and memorable family books for you and members of your family.

So if you're interested, you can click on this link: 2013 Best Genealogy Software Comparisons and Reviews to peruse the various genealogy software programs available and hopefully, you'll be inspired to one day create your own family history book for you and the descendants of your ancestors!