Chapter 19

Genealogical Publishing Houses and Their Sites

You will definitely want to read some books on genealogy as you pursue your family history (like this one!). And someday, you may even want to publish your own book on your family history or on the expertise you have gained in the process.

Publishing a Genealogy Book

There are several ways to go about publishing a book. For a long time, your usual route to publishing a genealogy was to pay a book publisher anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 to typeset, print, and bind your books. Sometimes, you could find a short-run publisher, that is, a publisher who specialized in printing 1,000 or fewer copies of an old, out-of-print, and out-of-copyright book that someone wanted revived for libraries ...

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