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The InDesign Masterclass: Design, Layout and Publication
Tom Jones is back with another Masterclass — and this time he's taking you further.
Following his popular Advanced Genealogical Writing Skills using Microsoft Word Masterclass, Tom turns his attention to the next step for family historians who are ready to move beyond word processing and into professional-grade layout.
This new four-week live Zoom Masterclass introduces Adobe InDesign: the industry standard for producing polished, print-ready books, journals, and family histories, and a program that rewards those who learn it properly.
Each session combines focused teaching with structured hands-on work, so you're not just watching, you're building a real document, week by week, using your own material wherever possible. By the end of Session 4, you'll have a finished, export-ready document and the skills to create the next one on your own.
Details
Workshop Cost: $247 (US dollars) for 8 hours (4 sessions each of 2 hours)
When: 4, 11, 18 November & 2 December 2026 @ 7 PM Eastern US
Where: via ZOOM. All sessions are closed captioned, recorded and available for viewing for 14 days following each session. Attendance is limited to 30 participants.About Thomas W. Jones, PhD
CG®, CGG℠, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
Tom Jones co-edited the National Genealogical Society Quarterly for sixteen years. He has written the textbooks Mastering Genealogical Documentation and Mastering Genealogical Proof, dozens of articles in peer-reviewed and edited genealogy journals and dozens more in genealogical magazines and newsletters. Holder of two graduate degrees in education, he teaches online and in person at genealogical institutes and seminars locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Audiences and students consistently report learning much from his lectures and interactive classes.
Why Family Historians Love InDesign
Word processors are brilliant for writing. They are not brilliant for publishing. If you've ever wrestled with images that won't stay put, page numbers that behave unpredictably, or a layout that looks fine on screen but falls apart in print, you already know their limits.
Adobe InDesign was built for exactly the kind of work family historians produce: multi-page documents with complex structure, images, tables, and consistent formatting throughout. Once you know how it works, it transforms the way you present your research:
- Your formatting is consistent from the first page to the last — automatically
- Your images sit exactly where you want them, with text flowing around them cleanly
- Your document is ready to send to a printer or share as a professional-quality PDF
- Your styles do the heavy lifting, so updating a heading or font across 80 pages takes seconds
- Your finished publication looks like it was designed — because it was.
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