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Gregath Publishing e-zine
Volume 6, Number 2
February, 2007
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Table of Contents
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What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What's It Mean?
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Acid Free (Paper) (see pH Balanced): The use of this term varies from the logical definition of the individual words to a wide variety of standards - always have a company explain their definition. Having no acidity and no residual acid-producing chemicals. Below is a definition from "Preserving Family Keepsakes Do's and Don'ts", Ilene Chandler Miller, 1996:
"Any paper that contains an alkaline (pH higher than 7 or an absence of acid) base and is often lignin-free."
Acid Transfer: The act of acid migrating from one object or item to another.
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For other printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossary at http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html
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Design Inspiration - See
Genealogy this issue
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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Hybrid Continued: Disks can be placed in envelopes or slim-line jewel cases to be delivered (or shrink wrapped) with printed books, or spindles may be attached to the end sheets to secure a CD in a hybrid book. Content ideas for this include:
Family screensaver
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Marketing advice - Encourage Repeat Customers
(Periodical Focus)
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Genealogy ideas
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The following was published in The Arkansas Genealogical Society E-zine, Volume 1, Number 4 (November 2006)
Contributed by Carolyn Earle Billingsley
Tips for Arkansas Researchers
Adding images to your family history should be part of every genealogist's repertoire. Images like maps, pedigree charts, diagrams, and photos add interest and a personal touch to your research. But how many of you have thought about postcards?
Sometimes you don't have an image of your grandfather visiting the courthouse, but you can still spice up your family history with a postcard image of that courthouse. In my case, for example, I don't have a photo of my parents sitting on the steps of the high school where they graduated back in the 1940s, but I was able to find a postcard of the school that dated to that era.
You might be surprised how many post cards there are out there. E-bay is an excellent place for finding them.
And now Ancestry.com has a large collection of postcards
online. Here's their press release about this new collection:
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Historical Postcards Collection, c. 1893-1963
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. Original data:
Mary Martin Postcards (www.MaryLMartin.com),
Perryville, MD, USA.
About Historical Postcards Collection, c. 1893-1963:
This database contains approximately 50,000 postcards dating from about 1893-1963. About three-quarters of the postcards contain pictures from places within the United States, while the remaining fourth contains pictures from abroad. Information provided about each postcard includes:
Place information (city/town, county, state/province,
country)
Caption
Postcard era (year range from which the postcard may be
dated)
This database is primarily useful for obtaining a photograph or picture of a specific place in time. If you do not already have pictures of the places your ancestors lived, historical postcards are a good alternative to personal photos.
Ancestry's collection even has an old postcard of the church my great-grandparents belonged to in Little Rock-and over 500 postcards of a variety of Arkansas sites. I especially liked the 1915 card of the old Confederate Soldiers Home, which has long since been torn down. The image includes the back side of the card, with the written message was written, along with the old stamp and the postmark.
So look around your relatives' houses, poke around flea markets, search the Internet, peruse e-Bay, and check out Ancestry.com for images to fill in those gaps in your family's pictorial history.
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Computer aid!?!
What software to use? (part 3)
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Especially if you have some experience with Microsoft software, one might consider buying Microsoft Office (instead of single particular program), which will include Word, a spreadsheet/database program, usually a webpage program, and sometimes Publisher. This is a long range planning consideration - especially if you are looking toward being a life-long author. Not every book project will be well suited to a single program. Transcriptions, and columnar data works very well in Excel. This data can be sorted, rearranged and selectively inserted into a Word manuscript - all without having to retype.
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