Book editing

Finishing up the book editing.  This has been quite a process. It's the first time I have worked with others to edit and finish up one of my books.  I have learned a lot in the process.  It is much harder to work with other people.  I prefer to work alone.  However, I have gotten more done and found more mistakes, therefore have a cleaner product in the end.  The book is richer for the experience and so am I.

My cousins keep asking if they are nagging or becoming annoying but they aren't.  They email me or post errors they find and I go in and correct the book.  Then we do the process all over again.  It is time consuming and tedious work but with fresh eyes looking it over it makes it so much better.

I would recommend working with others when putting together a family history book.  Don't get offended when someone finds mistakes in your creation.  You wouldn't want "your baby" to be riddled with mistakes and typos.  You want it to be clean and accurate, so take a deep breath and ask your cousins to edit, add and give input to your projects.  You will survive and be thrilled with the end project.

What a wild ride this has been.  Along the way, I have learned so much more about my grandparents on my mother's side, and been guided through a maze of new family on my father's side. Overall a good decision to include rather than work this out by myself. (Hard habit to break)

Thank you to all that have helped!  You have been amazing an thank you for your patience with me through the process.

End of summer 2012

Wow, where did the time go?  It's fall already. Sad to see summer gone.  I was enjoying the warm days.  Not sure if I am ready for coats and cold weather.  Certainly not ready for heating bills and slippery roads.

I have been working on editting the family history books.  There have been many late nights and oodles of changes. Have enjoyed seeing  all the new photos popping up on the facebook page and in my email.  Floods of memories being triggered and played out with each new photo.  It would be wonderful to go back in time and enjoy those moments.  (Taking a better camera with and making sure it was focused would be helpful too)

The leaves are beginning to fall off the trees in our yard and that marks the beginning of the raking project that lasts until the end of spring.  We have fifteen large trees and they shed their leaves all month, leaving a thick blanket on the ground.  It looks lovely, but is a lot of work to remove so the grass and rocks and plants survive.

Erin's room is done again.  Her new Birthday computer and second monitor in place.  Now she has a real command center and a computer that will play her Sims games.  The room looks really good and she is enjoying it.

I have updated the links on the family history 2011 page of this blog to the new editted family history books, so take a look and let me know if you find any more areas that need adjustment.  If anyone wants a PDF copy let me know.  Don't buy the books, as one they aren't finished yet, two there are lots of sales coming, three I will give a PDF copy to you  if you ask.

Bon Voyage to Summer............and hello autumn!

Family History Books finished !

I wanted to finish the books I started on our family history.  Time always gets away from me.  I finally got them printed.  I did rush in the end as Shutterfly sent me an email to say they were changing sizes and formats so anything I had in those sizes needed to be finished by the 10th of September.  Well that was a fire to my behind.  Then they added a 40% off incentive and free ship for orders over $30.00.  Ok, couldn't pass those up.  I ordered one of each.  Hopefully they aren't riddled with spelling errors, and the low resolution photos won't look too bad.  I will check out these and then decide if I want to order more for Christmas or start them over in a fresh look.  I am never happy with the things I create.  I can always find a better way once they are done.  Story of my life.  But at least I will have something in print and can relax for a minute about them. 

Still have a few more books to do.  Want to do one on my parents and my husbands parents then one on me and my husband.  That should be enough for awhile.  Crazy when you get working on them.  There is never enough time and you always want one more photo or document.

I linked the finished book to my first post of family history so look back in 2011 under family history and you can look at the books I have finished so far.  Let me know what you think.  If there are errors and there are bound to be, let me know what you find.  I apoligize upfront for any mistakes, or bad spelling.  I tried but spell check doesn't fix everything.  LOL.