Two Books that I found helpful for publishing as I was new to this also. Hatcher, Patricia Law. 1996. "Producing a quality family history." Salt Lake City: Ancestry. She does an excellent job of setting of styles and gives many choices. Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. 2005. "Carmack's guide to copyright & contracts: a primer for genealogists, writers & researchers." Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. There probably are more choices but in 2007 these were available. Connie's suggestion is good but .rtf goes to a Word software package is easier than WordPerfect. Also if I do it from RootsMagic into the MSword document, then I have plenty of room to add comments and proof statements which I don't usually keep in RM. They are in my Research Report which is a word document. -----Original Message----- From: transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jeannette Maxey Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 9:49 AM To: transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TGF] TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 6, Issue 573 Replying to Michael I sent him an early draft off line of one of the 11 generation books as I don't know how to otherwaise explain the Gen-book Set up but will not post it here. In the information with the Gen-book software - it describes itself as Modified Register. With the soft ware you choose either a Descendant format or an Ancestor format. I don't understand what difference it makes if you number down for Descendants or reverse the process to make a book with the numbers going from person A to their parents, grandparents etc. It seems an arbitray decision not an impossible feat to accomplish so I was also asking "why" it has been decided that way - what is the reasoning that it is not approved.. It seems so very clear, easy way to follow and 'pretty ' way to do a book. Why is it only approved for the Descendants?. 2. Not being versed in publishing - Nor do I know how I would take my data from my genealogy software and put it into a word processing document but it seems if you convert to using Microsoft Word (or the Word Perfect I use) that you are then stuck coding everything to be able to create your table of contents and indexes etc. Gen- Book was an easy way to get a nice format with all of my data which I would have used again if it was compatible with the currents softwares. Jeannette The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message