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Seniors Find Digital Family History Books Better

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Contributed by: Shirley Grose on 8/28/2008

SENIORS ARE EARLY ADOPTERS. Teenagers and seniors quickly decided that the Internet was a tool for connectivity and research when the Internet was still a frontier.

Again, many years later seniors are adopting a new form of publishing and sharing family history research in the shape of the digital history book, and finding that it is a cut above the old fashioned printed history books made with paper and ink.

Why is a digital history book superior for the family history researcher? Researchers say that the digital history book looks like a real book only with more perks.
1. A digital history book can be as lengthy as you want --pages are free.
2. A digital history book can be searched for any word or phrase in seconds.
3. A digital history book can be read more easily by those with vision problems.
4. A digital history book can be sent by email to family members.
5. Photos can be preserved inexpensively by scanning and including them.
6. A digital history book can be published, printed, bound later.
7. A digital history book allows pages to be inserted inexpensively.
8. A digital history book allows corrections to made after publication.
9. A digital history book costs zero dollars.
10. A digital history book can be a group effort with all the family contributing.

Paper history books with indexes are inadequate when compared to the same history books on CD or on our desktop emailed to us by friends.

No matter how complete those old indexes were they did not include every name, every place, even if they tried they missed facts that could be clues, gold nuggets to genealogists who had hit a wall in their research.

Contrast the digital history book: type the word or partial word into search on a digital PDF book and you will find EVERY instance of that word in a 400-500 page book in seconds not hours, days or months as with a paper history.

Preserve your photos now and forever, all of them, something that might be far too expensive with a paper book.

Want a photo of your great grandfather; perhaps only one exists?
Scan photos and place digital images in your book for grandchildren and future grandchildren; the pictures will be crisp and clear; they can print them, publish them, exchange them, and for generations, cherish them and the information about the photo.

Have a thousand photos, no worry about cost, scan them into the computer, add them to your digital family history book.

How do you make an digital family history book?
Squidoo gives three easy steps for a basic ebook that you can distribute to friends and family at http://www.squidoo.com/howtomakeanEbook.

If you want a history book that you can print later, as well as distribute to friends, then call a book designer--the PDF file that the designer makes for press will be the same as a digital book. Request your copy on CD before your paper book goes to press.

For those with impaired vision, the Adobe Acrobat reader enlarges words and pictures on the book's pages to 400% without blurring--an advantage for historians, too, who wish to enlarge buildings or family group pictures for minute details.

Digital History Books are the best kept secret in the family research field. Seniors and family researchers are once again leading the pack, adopting to digital books faster than the general public.

shirley.publish@gmail.com

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