When I started writing my still far from finished book I found that I had lots of information about a few particular families or individuals so I eventually settled on making a whole chapter about each of these, writing their story in narrative form, including photos where available, but adding a few charts, maps, etc. I also found it useful to add a little historic context, such as pointing out that, "
... of course there were no railways at this time so his journey would have taken many days ..."
It is all too easy (especially in my case) to write something resembling an old school textbook, which will rapidly put off the average reader. I think I will eventually make one book of factual information with charts, dates, etc. and another with the narrative story, which will necessarily leave out a lot of the bare facts for the sake of readabiility, but I think most readers would expect to see a few traditional
family trees to show the relationships.
All of which reminds me it's about time I got back to some writing after neglecting that aspect of my research for so long
Mike.
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