Hi Patrick, I recently did my own book with the riviting title "The McBrides of Surrey". Four small bits of advice. First set a deadline, eg Christmas this year or next year. Secondly limit the scope of your book to a couple of generations if you have large families to write about. If you don't do this you will never finish your book as you will constantly be finding more relatives. My book featured my greatgrandfather, his wife and their 9 children all born in Surrey. There were 12 chapters, each chapter about each person as well as a potted history of the region. Each of the 9 children had a section about themselves, their spouses (if married) and their children. Thirdly at the end of each chapter leave a page or two with the heading "Notes' and leave them blank so that the recipients of the book can write in extra things they may find. Finally put a picture, photograph, photocopyy of letters postcards etc on every page. Nothing is as boring as to have to read pages of information without illustrations. Obviously other people will have other ideas but I found the above, through trial and error, worked for me. I also found that by telling the prospective recipients of the book of what I was doing, I received lots of old photos, postcards etc. Kindest regards Wayne McBride