The more you personalize them the better. Make sure to include who you got the recipes from. I love looking through my recipe cards and going back to those jello salad recipes time and time again, especially the recipe cards on which she wrote the recipes by hand. One cookbook I did for my family also had a dedication page in it that listed all of the people whose recipes were included in the cookbook. It was especially neat because it included my family as well as my husband's.
Family cookbooks make great presents for friends and family members.
Because you can photocopy them as you need them, they are also very inexpensive. They can be given for all different occasions, including Mother's Day, weddings, graduations, birthdays, and Christmas, just to name a few. Your family will treasure them. When children grow up and move away from home, many times their favorite recipes don't leave home with them. What a precious gift, to put together your family's time-tested recipes for them to take with them as they begin their new lives and have families of their own to cook for.