[Phoenix]

Unless they are interested in family history, all the John married Mary and had thirteen children stuff is boring, and if they are interested, they can find it out for themselves, and probably much more quickly than we ever did.

I totally agree with Pinefamily. Bear in mind that the one thing we cannot find out from records is what our grandparents' favourite food was, who their first employer was, how far they had to walk to school, what their nickname was, if they ever met anyone famous etc etc. A paragraph on each immediate ancestor, with photos of the street where they lived, or their school, or a car of the same make that they drove.

If you have to put in dates, see if you can relate them to World history in some way, say inventions.

The only people my family were interested in were the suicides and the prisoners.