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\"Calvin

My great-grandparents and some of their children<\/p><\/div>\n

As Miguel Helft<\/a> reported last January in Forbes<\/em>, genealogy is big business. Ancestry.com<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest genealogical research website has more than 2.5 million subscribers, who can gain access to Ancestry\u2019s repository of more than 16 billion historical records and 70 million family trees. Now also in the DNA analysis business, 1.4 million AncestryDNA kits were sold in the last quarter of 2016, and Ancestry had more than three million members in its DNA database by the end of last year.<\/p>\n

People are finding, recording, and storing much information about their families\u2019 history. They are copying names and dates from old bibles, getting access to online information (and misinformation), studying old census records and Ellis Island\u2019s trove of ship manifests, resurrecting yellowed photos from attic trunks. Their desks are cluttered with post-its and scribbling-in notebooks. What to do with it all?<\/p>\n

This week I spoke to a small group of local genealogists\u2014some new to this passion, some experienced\u2014about options for presenting family history when the online templates from genealogy websites aren\u2019t sufficient. You sometimes need a paper version for elderly relatives who aren\u2019t online. You want a keepsake. You want to take it with you when you go to a research library.<\/p>\n

Some basics:<\/p>\n