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Chapters and the family book

A chapter brings a profile, its family connections, life events, memories and source references together as a readable page you can print or save as PDF. It changes nothing in the archive and uses no AI.

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Before you begin

  • An owner role

One relative’s chapter

  1. Step 1. Open Settings → Billing & access → Make a printable chapter, or go to the chapters page from the export panel.

    The Make a family chapter page with a relative chosen and the options beneath

    The Make a family chapter page with a relative chosen and the options beneath

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  2. Step 2. Choose Whose chapter would you like to make? and decide the options: include items restricted to editors or owners, embed reduced-size photographs (up to 40), and include the decision history for reviewed facts.

  3. Step 3. Choose Preview chapter to open it in a new tab, then print or save as PDF with your browser, or Download HTML for a copy that reads offline.

    A chapter preview: Eleanor Marlowe's recorded life laid out as a printed page

    A chapter preview: Eleanor Marlowe's recorded life laid out as a printed page

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A book of chapters

Under A book of chapters, tick up to 12 relatives, arrange their order and choose Preview book. The book opens with a contents list; each chapter starts on a new page and links to the others.

A book preview with its contents list of three chapters

A book preview with its contents list of three chapters

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Chapters include up to 50 linked memories and records and up to 100 life events. Audio and other originals stay in the full archive ZIP, so keep the two together; see export and back up your archive.

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