If your target individual is living, you might make her biography a type of memoir, filled with personal reminiscences, oral-history interviews, and so on. If the individual is no longer living, you might create a book to reflect her life and how she touched the lives of others. Because it will be a biography, you might want to keep the focus on the immediate family and include only information about the individual's parents, children, and grandchildren. Excerpts from journals, letters, diaries, and other writings are particularly effective. Interviews conducted with siblings, children, and grandchildren also make for interesting reading.
Pictures are a plus.
Types of family history books include biographies, memoirs, and historical accounts. Family Group Sheets detail the families, a descendant tree shows the relationships, a timeline offers an understanding of where the individual's life fell in regard to historic events, and items add interest and a personal look at the individual's life. This book is intended to nudge your memory when you are out researching. Books like these serve as quick references to remind you of the names, dates, and locations while you're juggling microfilms or hunting through courthouse archives for information. Because the book's purpose is not to inform other readers, you can stick to the bare facts.