Publishing Your Family History: Stressless LifeStory Books

6/25/2023

Publishing Your Family History: Stressless LifeStory Books

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Publishing Your Family History: Stressless Ancestor Story/LifeStory Books

Publishing Your Family History: Stressless LifeStory Books

As mentioned in Publishing Your Family History: Stress-Free Timeline Books, you don't have to be a writer to publish your family history! Take the stress out of the daunting task of sharing all of your hard work, and publish your family history the easy way! One of the easiest ways to publish your family history, if you’re not much of a writer, is with a pregenerated ancestor story, which can also include a timeline! Print out your family history stories using ancestor profiles with facts and tidbits of info!

Pregenerated Ancestor profile stories are a fantastic and easy option to share all your hard work with your family or the public! They are also an easy to view and absorb option, which makes them a great way to get others involved!

I usually use a family tree/genealogy program, such as Family Tree Maker, to print out various reports, trees, timelines, stories, etc., but if you don't have a genealogy program, Ancestry has their LifeStory printouts!

Check out what you can do with an Ancestry LifeStory, below!

Ancestry LifeStory/Ancestor Profile Printout Example:

*Tips:

Use LifeStory printouts to make ancestor photo books
Use LifeStory printouts for all your direct ancestors in each line, to make genealogy/family history books for each of your lines
Add photos and documents for interest
The more facts you add to your ancestor's profile, the more of a story you get
Add details and interesting tidbits of info for interest
Edit the pregenerated quick bio story, at the beginning, any way you'd like

Remember…ANYONE can publish their family history!

*Note: ©Diane Henriks (Copyright protected, and all rights are reserved. No portion of these images may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means; whether electronic, mechanical, etc., such as through copying, screenshotting, downloading, or other without prior written notice from me)

4 Comments

Colleen link

6/30/2023 04:18:51 am

This is an interesting alternative for writing a family story. I have spent years writing family history books but I realize not everyone can do that. It is good for stories to be shared so this is one more option.

Diane Henriks link

6/30/2023 01:31:06 pm

Yes, not everyone is a writer, and those that aren't seem to steer away from ever writing up their family history. This way ANYONE can share their family history. :)

Karen

6/30/2023 12:23:38 pm

I like that you included all of the images of what a complete story would look like. It gives someone a good idea of how they can create a book using Ancestry Life Stories. Sharing your genealogy work can be overwhelming and this is a great solution on how you can print it and share it with others.

6/30/2023 01:36:56 pm

Thank you. That's exactly what I was going for. ;) Yes, many get overwhelmed trying to figure out how they can share their work, especially the non-writers. This is just one alternative, of many, of an easy way for ANYONE to share their family history. :)