Publishing a Family History Book: The Process and Details

This presentation comes in two parts:

• The first will discuss the many ways you can create, publish, and distribute a family history book.  
• Then after a brief break, it will focus on ways to produce the text and incorporate graphics interestingly into the book. 

The presentation is filled with many practical examples based on Jay’s  recent publication of Only Two Places: Poland & Buffalo – A History of One New York Family. The nearly 400 page book culminates his forty years of research on his 100% Polish family roots.

This program will be held in person at the Minnesota Genealogy Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mississippi Room, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120 as well as virtually by Zoom. A zoom link will be sent to all PGS-MN members a few days before the program. Attendees (both zoom and in-person) do not need to register in advance. 

Not able to attend this event? No worries – the program will be recorded and available on the PGS-MN website (under Program Meeting Archives) about a week after the program is held.

 About the Speaker

Jay Biedny has been a decades-long member of both the Polish Genealogical Society of New York and of America. Since moving to Minnesota almost 40 years ago, he has been a member and officer of the Polish Genealogical Society of MN including its president.  His roots in Poland center north of Poznan in the German Partition and east of Nowy Sacz in Austrian Galicia.  He has Russian Partition relatives also who lived along the Vistula River north of Mielec. He has written columns on Polish genealogy for local publications as well as presented talks at local and regional genealogical events.