Welcome to the forum, Tempomental!
Your question brought to mind one of my family's genealogy books when you said "one giant book of genealogy" because that's just what
Bouton, Boughton and Farnam Families is.
I don't know if it helps at all, but you might want to consider the method adopted there. The book is available online, free of cost, at The Internet Archive. Click on the link below and see the first paragraph on page vi of the Introduction.
Bouton, Boughton and Farnam Families
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