Book with Table of Contents and Index

I want to write a genealogical book over 100 pages long, including photos, charts, and lots of text. My last book was on a PC using Adobe PageMaker, and I liked its ability to create a Table of Contents and an Index, both of which adjusted automatically as you added pages in the middle. An index is essential to genealogy, as people are mentioned in different places. To put a name in the Index, you selected the name, entered different possible versions of the name, and from a menu picked "Place in Index". When ready, you selected "Create Index" and it went through and picked the words that you had marked, noted what page they were on, and created a neat index. I need something like that for the Mac.
I tried Adobe InDesign on the PC, and found that it was mostly for graphics and fancy lettering and did not have a good Table of Contents or Index function. Mac's Pages program does not seem to have any indexing function at all, and gets very difficult to use as the document gets large.
Is there any Mac program which can write a serious book?

That is not a feature of iPhoto
And iPhoto books are limited to 100 pages (50 sheets of paper)
You can create custom pages in other software and print to PDF using the send PDF to iPhoto function to create an image in iPhoto to place in your book
see Old Toads tutorial #19 for more details - http://web.me.com/toad.hall/NewTutorials/main19.html
LN

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