Heritage Theme
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If you choose to create a heritage scrapbook album about your ancestors, hopefully you have found some information through your research so that you can tell a story about a single person or a whole family group. |
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Good information comes from your interviews of your relatives, from their birth, death and marriage certificates and from the census.
Types of Heritage Albums
Biographical
You could start with a biographical album about one particular member of your family tree.
Information that you could include is:-
- Where were they born?
- When were they born?
- Who were their parents?
- Where did they go to school?
- How many brothers and sisters did they have?
- What was their occupation?
- How did they meet their spouse?
- What historical events occurred during their lifetime?
- Did they serve in the military?
- How many children did they have?
- What is happening in the particular photo you have on the page?
Tips
- Depending on how long ago the person was born, there may be no photos of this person, but it is still possible to create a page about them.
- You may want to use copies of their birth certificate or you may have a page out of a family bible that they had with their handwriting.
- Anything that you can find that has a connection with the person will bring meaning to your album.
- You don't always have to create an album in a scrapbook 12" x 12" album, you can scrapbook in other sizes and also in other types of books. It is also possible to display a page about you ancestor in a frame on the wall or mini easel on top of a side table.
- Another great idea I heard recently is to scrapbook them in chapters of their life - their childhood, their working career, their family life, their senior years.
Family
This album is best for the history of one family unit. You could Include a pedigree chart with
the children as the starting point. Include pictures, documents, memorabilia,
and oral histories, journal entries or reminiscences.
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