Hi Everyone! I've never seen anything like it! In all my 16 years or so in family history research on many lists there has not been such a response. I have turned to bulk mailing of my little rag Genetree out to you folk (should have thought of it earlier) but the interesting thing is the feedback. Seems lots and lots of genie researchers want to do the same and hope to put out a regular newsletter/journal but are hesitant as how to commence. What I have received OFF-LIST (and fair enough, no need to clutter up the list with messages back and forth) has been mind boggling. Everyone, it seems, has come out of the woodwork with their requests. My Sunday has been taken up with replying and why not? We are here for each other. Well, I suppose I am hooked upon word processing publications but all you really need is Microsoft Word to do what you wish. Nice to have the benefits of word processors etc. but not entirely necessary. Start simple, you can become more creative as time goes on. A page or two with some photos (both old and new) is a good way to begin. Many of us have 18th and 19th century photos and a willingness to share. What better way to do this than with a regular newsletter? Don't loose all your cookies at once though -- keep some for future issues. As you become more proficient you may see the need to invest in a good desk top publishing programme and MS Publisher may be all that you need. There are other commercial products out there and I have been using Art Explosion Publisher Pro for many years now as it also gives me the ability to produce a website, but I wonder about upgrading to Windows 7 when it becomes necessary as so far PP has not been upgraded. Stops at XP. Anyway that is something to be addressed in the future. A good laser printer, simply black and white, is useful for printing out copies for those rels who wish to receive it not online e.g. electronically. I have found the Brother series, especially the recent 2140 model to be very cheap and gives excellent performance and you can recycle the cartridges. You can print 50 copies or so of 18 pages in one go though perhaps to give it a break it might be better to cut it down to 20 copies at a time, allowing it to cool. You can print the odd pages first and then pop them back into the printer and print off the even pages so what appears then is a magazine format. Simply collate them by hand and staple them on the left side of the page with three well spaced staples. Of course, anyone with a heat binding machine may do an even better job of binding the pages. All this can give you great satisfaction. So, what is stopping you? Anyone who has not yet asked for a copy of Genetree, please feel free to ask off-list. Nothing marvellous but it might help you get started. Cheers Graham Melbourne Oz

For those who can't afford MS Word you could use Open Office which comes to you from Oracle and is entirely FREE. It will read and write MS Word documents and the package will also do other things like, spreadsheets, charts, presentations (like Powerpoint) and databases. Best wishes, Greg On 19/12/2010 1:01 PM, Graham Price wrote: > Well, I suppose I > am hooked upon word processing publications but all you really need > is Microsoft Word to do what you wish. Nice to have the benefits of > word processors etc. but not entirely necessary. -- Please visit my BLOG *http://davisgenealogyproject.blogspot.com*

At 02:26 PM 19/12/2010, you wrote: > For those who can't afford MS Word you could use Open Office which >comes to you from Oracle and is entirely FREE. It will read and write MS >Word documents and the package will also do other things like, >spreadsheets, charts, presentations (like Powerpoint) and databases. >Best wishes, Greg Of course, remiss of me. I forgot, but who at 75 does not forget, eh? Thanks Greg for reminding us. Wonderful!Rebecca Cooley <rebecca156@hotmail.com> Cheers Graham

Hi Graham Sorry I do not have your off list add So please bear with me I would love to have a Copy of your Family history Publication Regards Roy Nicholas ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Price Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 1:01 PM Subject: [ENG-SHROP] Private Family History publications Hi Everyone! I've never seen anything like it! In all my 16 years or so in family history research on many lists there has not been such a response. I have turned to bulk mailing of my little rag Genetree out to you folk (should have thought of it earlier) but the interesting thing is the feedback. Seems lots and lots of genie researchers want to do the same and hope to put out a regular newsletter/journal but are