Creating a Complete Book From Genealogy Data
Using GEDitCOM II or GEDitCOM, you can prepare a beautiful and robust book from your genealogy file. The book will be organized into chapters by generations, have a table of contents, an index, a bibliography of all cited sources, and include portraits of individuals and family tree charts. Click here to see a sample book.
In brief, to create a book GEDitCOM II, you create a Book Style record, fill in the fields, select style options, and then click a button to create the entire book in one step. When using GEDitCOM II, the entire book creation is automated. The instructions for creating books using Book Style records are in the GEDitCOM II help window.
Although GEDitCOM does not have Book Style records, you can still create books. The process is to run the "Create Generations Book" extension, answer all the questions, and then use separate LaTeX software to typeset the book using the files that get created. To create books in GEDitCOM, you will need to download and install the extension first. The instructions for creating books in GEDitCOM and in the extension's documentation. To see it, use the "Documentation..." menu command in the "Extensions" menu and select the "Create Generations Book" extension from the pop-up menu in the documentation window.