Dickins or Dickens family, Birmingham and Trysull

[Martinom]

Thanks for that. My ancestor was Peter (Davis), and I'm working on the 2nd of two diaries now.  The first - a travel diary - is published online at http://www.freerangephotography.co.uk/pdtd.pdf . Martinom

[Caliandris]

I've started reading the diary you linked to - it's a fantastic document, you're *so* lucky to have it.  I shall look forward to seeing the other.  This one is interesting for any family historian for the information it gives about the life just before Victoria's reign.

Had you thought about the new forms of book production, like blurb?  You lay out the book and illustrations, and then decide how much to charge on top of the cost of each book's production, and then people who want a copy, order it from the website.  It's very useful for books which are likely to have a limited appeal - although on the evidence of what I have read so far, I think that is unlikely to describe your great great grandfather's diaries.

Thank you so much for sharing it with me :-).
bws
Fee

[Martinom]

Thank you. Yes, I do know about Blurb, and in fact have two public books with them -  "A stained glass Bible" and "With an eye on the Via de la Plata: Seville to Salamanca". However, I have a (conventional) publisher lined up for the diaries, the two to be published in one volume, and am currently working on the biographical index - the deadline date is 30 November, by when I've also got to assemble 50 illustrations - from somewhere! So, must get back to work! (Yes, I know I am VERY lucky!!) Martinom