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Heritage Scrapbooks
Legacy Bits and Baubles From Your Family Tree
 Before you begin your heritage scrapbooks you will need to gather all the photographs that you have available. This will aid you while you work so you won't realize, too late, that you have a photo that should have been included on any particular layout. You may wish to visit with other family members to see if you can scan and print any photos you do not already have.
When you visit other members of your family, especially the older ones, take along a tape recorder and ask if they mind recording their answers for you. You can transfer the entire recording to a CD and tuck it in with your pages (be sure to keep your original recording somewhere safe). However, always remember to take along a notepad and pen to manually record all those things you may wish to include while journaling. Better yet, have your elder family members write down some of their memories and include them as well.
You may also wish to include some official family documents, such as:
- Birth Certificates
- Marriage Licenses
- Divorce Decrees
- Death Certificates
- Military Discharges
While working on your family scrapbook, you are designing a visual memory book of your lineage. You will be recording and capturing the notable historical events of your ancestors within your scrapbooking pages. In it you will illustrate the lives of those you love even if you never met them, with token memorabilia of the day. You will want to design each page in such a way as to compliment itself as well as the others for presentation or display.
Other family items you may wish to include may be:
- Awards
- Ticket Stubs
- Museum Passes
- Airplane Tickets
- Announcements
- Drawings or Doodles
- Newspaper Clippings
- Handwritten Anything
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.
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
"Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts."
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