General Design Links:
Digital | Elements | Font | Footnote | Header/Footer | Indexing | Insert Items | Watermark - Ghosting | Foldout | Layout | Margins| Book Size | Page Numbers | Photos | POD Options | Title | Packaging and Shipping in future
Let us do the work for you!

Element Examples

All book excerpts carry the original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission.

This area will be growing, so check back often. If you have a suggestion, let us know and we may just publish it here - crediting the source, of course!

Letters | Scrapbook | Rations | Newspaper
Another use of a handwritten letter
Map ideas and examples
Color graphic and font in overall design
Other Document ideas and examples

Correspondence, from My Branch of the Family, by Roy Denman:
This example has a nice, but not too long, informational caption. In addition to the letter contents, the use of the envelope is a special touch.

All book excerpts carry the original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission.

Back to top of page

If you want to include a letter for the fun of it, but are unsure the contents would be welcomed printed publicly, there are creative ways - such as including the envelops of love letters, rather than the letters themselves:

All book excerpts carry the original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission.

Back to top of page

Include things you are not likely to see in other publications that have to do with your family. Examples-

Ration page, from My Branch of the Family, by Roy Denman:

All book excerpts carry the original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission.

Back to top of page

Scrapbook pages are not just confined to traditional scrapbooks.

Scrapbook page, from My Branch of the Family, by Roy Denman:

Back to top of page

All book excerpts carry the original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission.

For more suggestions on this subject and more, order our book:
G550-$20.00 WRITING Family History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit Complete Edition, by Gregath Company, Inc., *updated* 2015. ISBN: 978-0-944619-00-1, 8½x11", softbound book, 132 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project for the typist and/or computer user. Note: All G prefix books 100 pages or more, this one included, that are SB can be special ordered in hard cover edition - contact for details. Also available on disk. | Click here for more information.

> Home Page > Book Preparation Tips > Getting Started > Publication Design > Extra Elements > Examples

Page Last Updated: January 09, 2019