Looking to create a heritage scrapbook for your family? This post shows you step by step instruction on how to make one for your family.
Discover how fun heritage scrapbooking can be with these inspiring scrapbook layouts and tips and tricks for compiling your family history album.
Creating an ancestry photo book can be daunting. You may feel paralyzed about where to begin. Here are my step-by-step tips to make the process manageable and fun.
Every heritage scrapbook album should have a family tree page. Here are a few examples to inspire your creations.
Old books are very easy to come by at thrift stores and garage sales, and they make the perfect base for creating scrapbooks and journals. You can use the book as is, and just add your own photos, …
Use new ideas to create your next family scrapbook pages. These family scrapbook design ideas are easy, happy and add a vintage feel.
This is a beautiful gift for a new addition to the family, or for any genealogy enthusiast! With 6 generations, there are bound to be some gaps in the pictures. Don’t worry. There are actually gaps in each of the pictures of this listing, but I bet you didn't notice! ;) You can send your photos via dropbox, emails, or send me a link to your tree on familysearch or ancestry. I recommend printing these at a 20x24 to be able to see each face well.
Cemetery photos are great in genealogy, but only if you get the right ones. Here are 5 photos you should take every time you go to the cemetery.
Hello, Memory Bound friends! On a recent Facebook Live video, I shared some scrapbooks I’ve been working on lately, including a few pages from my heritage albums. From the comments and questi…
Great step-by-step instructions on how to make a meaningful Ancestor Gallery Wall! Full of useful tips on finding quality frames, repurposing mats, and more.
In a recent post, I shared some tips for organizing heritage photos. Of course, photos are the most important part of scrapbooking — but I’d argue that MEMORABILIA is a close second! In…
The day after Thanksgiving my family and I made the trek to visit my grandparents. They live about an hour away from our home, unfortunately we don't get to see them as often as I would like to. This particular day we ate, visited, watch some old home videos and then later in the afternoon we helped Grandma put her Christmas decorations up. As I was in the back of her closet getting Christmas decorations out I came across these: (which is why I'm telling you about what happened last Thanksgiving ;) Well, I knew I couldn't leave them there so I grabbed them along with a stack of Christmas decorations and went back downstairs. As I opened the albums my jaw dropped. One of them was filled with more recent color photos (from the 70's and 80's) and the other two were chock full of beautiful, beautiful black and white photos. Isn't she beautiful?!?! The sad part is that we have no idea who she is. There are many photos like this but also many that were written on or had writing next to them. I poured over each page in every album. Inside I was sick, I knew that these photos were crumbling because of the albums they were in. About 30 years ago in the late 70's early 80's manufacturers made what were called 'magnetic' albums. These albums were made from a thick cardstock, almost like chipboard material covered with thin strips of adhesive, very acidic adhesive. The adhesive is what was causing my family photos to fall apart. Covering these adhesive pages is a thin layer of plastic. Some of the plastic covering is made of PVC and some were made of Mylar. I don't know which plastic was on my grandparents album but either plastic is not good. The plastic keeps the acidic fumes close to the photos and therefore the photos deteriorate even faster. If you look at the edges of the adhesive papers in these photos you can see the edges of the pages are already yellowing and starting to crumble. When I saw the pages and some of the photos starting to yellow I knew I had to get them out of the albums. I asked my grandma if I could take the albums and restore them for her. Her reply made me smile, "sure, I'm so glad that you care enough about some old photos that you'll take care of them" Me, care about photos?!? My life pretty much revolves around photos. I stuffed the albums in my bag and headed home. As we drove home I poured over the photos. I grew more and more apprehensive of this huge project I had just created for myself. When I got home I put the albums in my bedroom and let them sit. I just had a hard time wrapping my head around how I was going to get so many photos into albums. I knew I couldn't scrapbook them all in traditional layouts so they sat there in my bedroom. One day I was thinking about this massive project and then it dawned on me. Pocket pages! Yes, that was my answer! I could put the photos into pocket page protectors. It would preserve them and it wouldn't take nearly as long as making traditional layouts would. Once I had a plan in my head I started gathering supplies. I knew I wanted beautiful high quality albums, so We R Memory Keepers came to mind. It's no secret that their albums are beautiful and the best quality. WRMK also has pocket page protectors and journaling cards. I also wanted to make sure there was a digital copy of these photos because most of them are one of a kind. I bought this Photo, Slide, and Negative Scanner and I must say that I was thrilled with the way that it worked. It scanned the photos directly to a memory card and all I have to do is upload those files to dropbox and then my entire family can have access to these priceless photos and it was only around $40.00. I also had one other supply gathered for this project. It's a little strange but it was a necessity. Yup, it's dental floss. Unflavored, please. Oh, and band-aids. Don't forget band-aids. Over the next couple of weeks I'll have more details about the entire process we went through to restore these old albums. (Yes, I said we. This is a project that took an army to complete.) Make sure you stop by next week for Part 2 of Restoring Old Photo Albums into Pocket Page Scrapbooks. (Update: Part Two and Part Three) Here's a list of supplies that I gathered for this project: We R Memory Keepers Albums We R Memory Keepers Photo Sleeves Photo, Slide, and Negative Scanner Waxed Dental Floss Project Life Journaling Pens We R Memory Keepers Journaling Cards Self Adhesive Photo Corners band-aids
Creating an ancestry photo book can be daunting. You may feel paralyzed about where to begin. Here are my step-by-step tips to make the process manageable and fun.
Use scrapbooking como técnica de seus trabalhos! Aprenda a fazer e inspire-se aqui com os mais variados tipos de artesanato com esse método artístico.
If you're planning to digitize photos or family history items anytime soon, there are plenty of things you can do now to get ready for your scanning project. Here's a…
If you’re looking for the perfect gift, skip the shops and get out your family records. Share your glad tidings with these DIY family history book projects.
Record your family's special events, precious memories, and day-to-day activities with this simple, no stress family journal binder.
As you progress with your research, recording family history should become an integral part of your process, and you should choose a system that is easy for you, and others, to understand. There are many ways you can organise your genealogical research, such as using a filing system or computer program and making notes using
For Christmas 2016, I put together a family history binder for my father-in-law. I began at the beginning of September with the intention of including both his paternal and maternal lines, but with…
Inspiring quotes about family, family history, genealogy and family trees from the photo organizing experts at Good Life Photo Solutions
Papers and photos and sticky notes, oh my! Tame your family history research chaos with tips on getting started. Plus, a free genealogy organization ebook!
Preserving old family letters is one of the best things you can do to be sure their precious content is available to future generations. Follow these easy steps from The Archive Lady, Melissa Barker…
Rescue your valuable old photos and remove them from magnetic albums before it's too late. Find out what to do with these precious memories and how to archive the photos.
My tips, tricks, and workflow for scanning and digitizing old family photos that I have learned after scanning more than 11,000 pictures!
Celebrate the variety of heritage stories in the classroom with these fun color-your-own posters! Each poster can be colored by a student who then fills out information on their family’s heritage. Cultural food, special traditions and more can all be included on these posters and then displayed as wall decoration to help classmates learn about each other and the importance of heritage. Paper. (30 pcs. per unit) 17" x 22" © OTC
Family history books are as unique as your ancestors. Explore my favourite graphic design apps to layout and typeset your ancestor stories.
Can you download your family tree from Ancestry.com? The answer is yes. We see this question quite a bit so we thought we'd quickly show you how.
Do you have boxes of old family pictures and memorabilia stashed away in closets? If so, you might be looking for a way to use them to tell your family story. Documenting your family history will preserve it for future generations, and you don’t have to be a genealogy expert to do it!
One of the best ways of preserving your family history and to make the most of your research is to make a family tree album that can help you preserve the information for future generations. Making a family tree album can also help to bring all the family stories and pictures together so that your
Créer un livre de famille à partir de carnets manuscrits, de vieilles lettres, de photo ou d'écrits tapés à la machine à écrire est de plus en plus facile.
Add some personality to your family history displays with these easy craft ideas for signatures.
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you t...
