Creative Crafting

Once I decided I wanted to do some scrapbooking, I had to think what I wanted to accomplish.  Did I want it to be just page after page of really cool looking photos, or did I want those photos to tell a story of our family.

My sister and I have embarked the last few years on a history of our family, we have taken our geneology back 150 years to our great, great grandfather on our mother’s side.  Considering they did not have photographic equipment back then, I wondered how I would incorporate those names onto a scrapbooking page? I found on the web a free pedigree site: http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/.  With these charts you can fill in the names of the ancestors that you have no pictures for, along with either current pictures of your family, or pictures of other ancestors in that line.  There are literally hundreds of possibilities.

I read somewhere that scrapbookers are also genealogists; and no wonder, since scrapbooking is a way of preserving our lives, and the lives our families. With care and consideration genealogy and family history can very easily be incorporated into scrapbooking with or without photos of your ancestors!

Getting Started

Maybe you’re like me and have worked on your genealogy for a long time. That’s good. If not, well you’ve got a long road of misery and drudgery ahead of you. We’re looking at endless nights tied to the computer, weighed down by names, and dates and facts without any relief in sight. You’ll be trudging through dusty books in some deep dark corner of your local library and suffering paper cut after paper cut as you dig in the deep dark hole of history. Or you could have a sister like mine who really thrives on this type of challenge, and does all the leg work for you, then doesn’t know how to put it together in an organized fashion.

There are numerous web sites out there dedicated to assisting you in your search for your roots! Some are free like the LDS Family Search Site and the US GenWeb Project; and some cost money like Ancestry.com, and Heritage Quest. Often times Ancestry and Heritage Quest can be accessed for free at your local library!

So what is stopping you from finding your lost history and putting it into a book for future generations.  Isn’t this the reason for scrapbooking?

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