Options to create a book from family letters
I need suggestions! I have made several family history books in the past using Shutterfly. I am currently trying to put together a book of letters my father wrote to his parents while in college. This is a fairly large group and will probably be around 200 pages with pics included with transcriptions. Shutterfly will only allow 111 pages I found out. What other options are there to do this? Thank you!!
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@DavickMaryEllen1 Your post was moved to the memories category so that we can better assist you.
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Great question…I hope others can jump in and offer some additional advice.
Here is only one thought. In FamilySearch Memories, there is a link to go to Storied.com. (You will find it from any Person's Page, then view their Memories. Above the Memory images, you will find the box "Create StoriedBook.") If you already have these letters in FamilySearch, it will pull the images for easy creation.
Not having personally ever wanted a book that is more than 100 pages, I did an AI check on what Storied.com offers. It looks like Storied includes up to 200 pages at a standard rate, with a maximum limit of 450 pages total. Pages 201-450 require an additional charge.
Again, I haven't tried Storied, but it sounds like it would be an option for the scale of your project. Good luck!
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@DavickMaryEllen1 @AmberML1 Mixbook.com is also an online creator. They do up to 400 pages. I hope this helps also.
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Merci pour l’information ! C’est intéressant, surtout la possibilité de créer un livre de famille allant jusqu’à 400 pages. Cela pourrait être une excellente solution pour rassembler des photos, des histoires familiales et des documents généalogiques dans un seul ouvrage. Je vais regarder cette option plus attentivement.
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From Google Translate:
Thanks for the information! That’s interesting, especially the option to create a family book of up to 400 pages. It could be a great way to bring together photos, family stories, and genealogical documents in a single volume. I’ll take a closer look at this option.
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What a treasure. If one volume gets unwieldy, splitting it by school year can work well - each book is easier to hold and pass around. I'd also add a short note at the start of each section about what was happening in the family at the time; future readers will understand the letters so much better.
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One thing worth settling before you pick a service: the book is the printed version, not the archive. Whichever one you use, keep the scans and the transcriptions separately from it, with the date and the writer in each file name, so a single letter is still findable when the book is out of print or the service shuts down. And if the page cap keeps biting, splitting by year or by school term usually reads better than one 200 page volume anyway, and it gives each part a natural place for the photos that belong to that period.What a treasure. If one volume gets unwieldy, splitting it by school year can work well - each book is easier to hold and pass around. I'd also add a short note at the start of each section about what was happening in the family at the time; future readers will understand the letters so much better.
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