Heritage Scrapbooking; Family Tree Scrapbooking

A Lasting Legacy

Heritage scrapbooking is a way to preserve your personal family lineage and history. It allows you to create a family legacy out of various elements by combining essential genealogy tracings of your ancestors with precious memorabilia, from family photographs, personal notes, and greeting cards to buttons, bows, and ribbons.


The art form of scrapbooking is an ancient craft that has evolved as the years have passed away. From the ancient Greeks to the simple antiquated notebooks of Thomas Jefferson's day called "commonplace books" used for storing important occurrences and wise words of advice of the day, and now to digital scrapbooking with scanning, Photoshopping, printing old © Susan Leggett | Dreamstime.com
photos and other scrapbooking items, the means of preserving the legacy of our families have certainly changed.

Legacy Bits and Baubles From Your Family Tree
Before you begin you will need to gather all the photographs that you have available.


Organization is Key
Organization is essential since you may not personally know the people you are scrapbooking about.


Best Scrapbooking Albums
What is the best scrapbooking album?


Portable Scrapbook Storage
If you don't have space you will want to come up with a portable scrapbook storage solution that will contain most of your scrapbook needs, but can be stored away when not working on your pages.


Quotes About Family
"Family stories make the most valuable heirlooms." -Unknown


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