Creating Keepsakes


Book Description

Doesnt everyone have that one scary closet stuffed with years worth of family photos and memorabilia? And dont we all have the best intentions of doing something with all of it some day?




Scrapbooking Your Family History


Book Description

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received "Genealogy for the First Time"(R) with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come. The page designs all draw on color schemes and images common to various time periods, and there are also techniques for displaying the scrapbooked material in shadow boxes and frames.




Scrapbooking Your Family History


Book Description

This voume shows scrapbookers and beginner genealologists how to uncover their ancestry and display it in a heritage album. Readers will learn to: find and identify family photographs; put their ancestors into historical perspective; interpret historical documents and more.




The Complete Guide to Creating Heritage Scrapbooks


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Readers will learn to preserve those precious family memories in a one-of-a-kind heritage album.




Family Tree Scrapbooking Kit


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Celebrate your family ties, both past and present, by completing uniquecrapbook pages. This book and its components will guide and inspire you toreate stunning projects featuring your family tree to commemorate youreritage.




What's a Photo Without the Story?


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Think you don't have stories to tell? Of course you do. Everyone does! In this book you will learn how to: Tell your family stories Enhance your stories by adding photos and details Leave a legacy, not a burden Identify mystery photos Investigate family legends Dig deeper & climb higher on your family tree Do as much or as little as you like! Each section includes activity choices: Low effort (Do this if nothing else.) Medium effort (Your family will thank you.) High effort (Ask for help if you need it.) A professional organizer and genealogist helps you tell the stories of your photos, family, and things. Get started by clicking the Buy Now button at the top of the page. "At last, a clear, easy to read, and engaging book that will help you uncover the stories hiding in your family photo collection. Hazel brings to life her own stories and takes the mystery out of genealogy research. This book is an excellent resource for anyone ready to tackle this project and meets the promise Hazel makes in her introduction: I've never met a person who didn't have a story worth telling. Everyone has a story, and this book will help you tell yours!" Cathi Nelson CEO / Founder The Photo Managers




Creating Your Family Heritage Scrapbook


Book Description

Once simply the act of applying photos to album pages, scrapbooking is now a highly decorative craft, and in fact has resurfaced as one of the hottest trends in the craft industry. Retail outlets, craft stores, and publications are dedicating large amounts of resources to reintroduce consumers to this hot but age-old-trend. Couple this with the fact that new software and the Internet and their ease of use have created unprecedented interest in genealogy and the tracing of people's family heritages, and the result is the craft of heritage scrapbooking. In Creating Your Family Heritage Scrapbook, authors Maria Given Nerius and Bill Gardner introduce readers to and guide them through this next big step in the art of scrapbooking. A constant reference companion, this book gives readers all the tools they need to learn about and enjoy heritage scrapbooking, such as: -- The art and application of researching family history including online resources-- The necessary supplies, tools, and products to start a heritage scrapbook-- Scrapbooking and journaling how-to's, including dozens of hints and tips-- Sample templates and a fo




How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club


Book Description

It's easy to start, teach, and franchise a creative genealogy writing club, class, or publication. Start by looking at the descriptions of each business and outline a plan for how your group operates. Flesh out each category with your additional research pertaining to your local area and your resources. Your goal always is to solve problems and get measurable results or find accurate records and resources. Or research personal history and DNA-driven genealogy interpretation reporting. You can make keepsake albums/scrapbooks, put video online or on disc, and create multimedia text and image with sound productions or work with researching records in archives, oral history, or living legacies and time capsules. A living legacy is a celebration of life as it is now. A time capsule contains projects and products, items, records, and research you want given to future generations such as genograms of medical record family history, family newsletters, or genealogy documents, diaries, photos, and video transcribed as text or oral history for future generations without current technology to play the video discs. Or start and plan a family and/or school reunion project or franchise, business or event. Another alternative is the genealogy-related play or skit, life story, or memoir.




BarbwireDigi's Guide to Creating A Digital Genealogy Scrapbook - 3rd Edition


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This step-by-step guide is designed to help those who have researched their family history create an interesting and artistic format by which they will be able to share their findings with others. Now with easier to use ScrapRoom Software - You'll love the ease with which you can Preserve Your Family History artisically! Even if you've never attempted a digital scrapbook album before, this guide will help you create an intriguing collage of photos, stories, documents and yes, even video interviews! Your creation will be a priceless, work of art that will be treasured and reviewed for generations to come. Get started today .. You have so much to share!




How to Publish in Womenýs Studies, Menýs Studies,Policy Analysis, &Family History Research


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Apply these strategies: How to Publish in Women's Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family Issues. How to Earn a Practical Living Applying Women's Studies & Family Research to Business Writing or Corporate Communications Training. Organizing, Designing, & Publishing Life Stories, Issues in the News, Current Events, and History Videos, Board/Computer Games, Scripts, Plays, and Books. How do you start your own Women's Studies policy analysis writing and communications business? How do you earn income using practical applications of Publishing/Producing, Women's Studies, Current Events, or Family History Issues Research and Writing in the corporate world? How do you train executives to better organize writing and interpersonal communications skills? What specific projects would you use to organize communications, publish your research, or train others? Use these vital platforms of social history to start 25 business and creative writing or publishing enterprises. Apply practical communications. Organize and improve communication and publishing projects in the corporate world or academia. Open 25 different types of writing, publishing, or production businesses. Train executives and entrepreneurs in how women's and men's studies, family history, and current issues in the news relate to business writing, creative concepts, producing multimedia, and training others in interpersonal communications or policy analysis.