Over the years, a number of people asked if I planned to
write a genealogy book about the Buck family.
For a long time, I always said “No, that would be too much work”. But I continued in my genealogy hobby and even
wrote a bit. I made a blog, “The Buck
Family of Virginia”, http://buckfamilyofvirginia.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-posting.html
(begun 13 years ago!) and posted to it irregularly. Not too long ago, I realized that I actually had
written a book – it just wasn’t in book form and was not organized very
well. At that point I decided to not
attempt to write about the entire Buck family but to write a book about my
direct ancestors and a few other interesting family members. I did this by cutting and pasting from
various articles, posts and emails I had written. The result is “My Buck Family of
Virginia: The Family Tree of Gordon
Sandlin Buck” which was accepted today by Amazon and is available as a Kindle
eBook now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0847R7WG8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=my+buck+family+of+virginia&qid=1580155175&sr=8-2
.
In a few days, the paperback version should be available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0842MZMSG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=my+buck+family+of+virginia&qid=1580155355&sr=8-3
.
OK, so this is “self-publishing” but it is also “print on
demand” so I don’t have to order hundreds of books at a time, keep copies on
hand and mail them out. I’m taking the
easy way out and letting Amazon do all the work. Anyone that wants a copy can order directly
from Amazon.
But you don’t have to have a copy of the book to get to the
information. Almost all of the
information in the book is available on my Buck Family of Virginia blog.
