I want to try creating a book. Where can I view other RM books to see examples?
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RM doesn’t have any sample books to view. Maybe other users will share theirs.
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What are you trying to do ? RM allows to create a decent book, my biggest gripe with it is that many things are not dynamic from a person’s POV so it you want to create many similar books from Different cousins POV that might be a bit tedious.
This is my first try at this. Guess I want to explore another feature of RM.
I didn’t mean to discourage you. A basic book is fairly easy. If I was going to create a more elaborate book I would not use RM and learning the quirks might get frustrating depending on you objectives. For that reason I still use FTM / FBC I can create a nice book in 15 mins (100-1000plus pages). Although, I might create both in some cases.
Kevin
@huskym1025 Sorry I couldn’t find any examples of a book
Since you have RM 11, you could try using A I prompts to start the process BUT most of us found the results lacking except that the addition of historical facts was interesting-- and if you have Windows 11, you have Co Pilot on your machine–
this thread was a discussion on using A I prompts-- click on Chat GP in 1st one to see an example
There are several videos on this one abt writing and A I prompt
This other one has a few more suggestions
Basically I have seen some really nice book type reports over the years-- they are basically using the narrative report and picking one ancestor–say your father’s paternal line and doing a descendant report ( unfortunately that leaves a lot of ancestors on just his side out of the report) or picking one person such as your self and doing an ancestor’s report–I’m NOT a big fan of ancestors report as they become very hard to read really fast – if I was going to do this, I think I would unlink Mom from Dad and then run the ancestors report for each side of the family-- after that throw in pictures and pedigree/ fan chart…
Don’t know if you knew that RootsMagic has a program called Personal Historian that you MIGHT want to check out-- there is a free version
wish you good luck
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Here is the video produced by RootsMagic founder Bruce Buzbee when “Books” was reintroduced in version 9. It might help you get started. Publishing Books with RootsMagic 9
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Thank you for the info. Will take a look at it.
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Thank you for all the info. I will take a look at everything today.