Posts Tagged ‘geneology’
Preserving Our Past Through Scrapbooking
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!
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