Whidden Wanderings

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Fixed the Wordperfect formatting problem

After mentioning the problem here, went home and instead of trying to move the leftmost margin marker, moved the rightmost marker (which seemed to control indentation of lines after the first one) and set the paragraph format from centered to left justified and problem solved.

The book is now printed and bound it for $6.00 in two volumes and after going through it since seeing it in print is different than editting it on-screen, will send it off for a cousin to do some editting. It has the usual cover and front page stuff, two pages of color and B&W photos including one of Paul Whidden and family, me, Helen Whidden, Elsie Thoresen and David Graham Whidden and his wife, all responsible for Whidden genealogies over the years.

The preface is about fifty pages long, then the body starts off with updated Whyddon genealogy, a few pages on the first Whiddon known in the western hemisphere, a Captain Jacob Whidden who died and is buried in Trinidad but was a colleague of Sir Walter Raliegh. Then starting with Ichabod, on for fourteen generations, bibliography, index of material that will be on the CD-ROM including additional register reports for Newcomb, Hart, Freeman/Jarvinen and Faulkner, sources and index.

Will try to finance it in whole or in part by selling Whidden business directory space and hope to be able to print a thousand copies, hopefully getting a hundred or so in libraries though Canada, US and some in England.

It took about five Canon inkjet cartidges at about $20.00 each to print so is not cheap.

Cheers, Ray

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