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Pixxibook
In the past year I have explored some new ways of sharing my family stories. With the end of Blog2print I looked for an alternative. The photo above is of two volumes printed by Pixxibook.
First the positives, the reproduction of photos and text is excellent. The hard cover bindings and the quality of the glossy paper is also excellent.
This post first appeared on https://carmelgalvin.info
Before I can recommend this service there are some significant limitations about which I have provided feedback to the company. While one can select which posts will be included in the book, there was no way to reorder the pages, no control over the place images appeared in the posts and no Contents page. I did not expect an index is this kind of service but think a Contents page is a minimum.
Having said all that I now have two very handsome volumes to hand on to one of my children in the years to come.
WeAre - a family archive
My second focus in the past twelve months has been using WeAre.xyz to create a comprehensive archive of all the family stories, documents and images I have compiled over the last twelve years. I can recommend this unreservedly. For a modest fee one can upload a GEDcom then get busy adding all the stories and ephemera surrounding each family, everything from images to wills to artifacts and special occasions and places. All media is tagged to individuals and relevant families.
Archives can be public or private but no private individuals will be exposed in the public archive.
WeAre has a Feed feature showing the most recent additions to the archive but as one's archive grows larger, I find it useful to keep track of what I have added there, so I use Google sheets. Compared to Excel the data validation is easy to set up so I have a record of where I am up to.
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Some may prefer to have a text document but I find the flexibility of a spreadsheet an effective way of keeping track of data.
For more details about WeAre.xyz try the site for free for 30 days, check the YouTube channel, or join the Facebook group to find comprehensive instructions and to have any questions answered.
