From time to time, examples arise where it is not easy to describe a local community in a village book. A community's collective memory and historical facts do not necessarily always have to match.

Village book authors have an enormous responsibility to describe a community as it really is, rather than choosing the safe, generally accepted version. Generally established truths can present a village book author with greater challenges than he/she appreciates.

A good system for keeping track of genealogy work is invaluable. It's not just a system for keeping things in order, but also a system that helps to make the work more efficient.

There are several ways to systematize your work. Before the 1990s saw the introduction of genealogy programs on computers, it was often the case that card indexes were the way to go when it came to systematizing genealogical research, but today there are very few people who do not have their work on a program at home on their own computer.

Choosing a genealogy program is not an easy task. The program you choose will probably be used for several years, so it's important to know what you need. Of course, you can switch from one genealogy program to another, but transferring data from one genealogy program to another is not necessarily painless.

Today's genealogy programs can generate text files about your family or individuals based on the information you, as a genealogist, have entered. But to put your own stamp on the text, you have to do the work yourself.

If you want to publish something online (or elsewhere), you must comply with the Copyright Act. Below are some useful pointers from this law. But first, a brief definition of intellectual property and copyright: