Vanity presses have typically been engaged to produce copies of books with a limited audience, such as family genealogies, corporate histories, or sometimes personal collections of poems or community cookbooks used for fundraising. (thebalancecareers.com)
Growing up in New England and exploring old cemeteries with her parents doing family genealogy, Pam's interest in history now expanded through her involvement in local historical and civic organizations. (michaelmaspress.com)
What she found only made her want to dig deeper: signs of culinary wit and family genealogies scrawled among the annotated, grease - stained pages, poems, accounting sums, Bible verses, French lessons, sermons, IOUs, practice artwork and family records. (sciencedaily.com)