Scrapbooking Your Family History


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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.




Family History Scrapbooking Simplified


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Do you want to publish your family history research but feel limited by the lack of content that you have? Family History Scrapbooking Simplified helps you map out your heritage using photos, documents, or the content you have. Are you frustrated with the lack of creative control that large photo book printers offer? Family History Scrapbooking Simplified suggests a way to take creative control over your project using digital scrapbooking software. Are you ready to create a heritage scrapbook but do not know what to include in the such a project? Family History Scrapbooking Simplified explains what to put in your projects from a genealogical perspective.




Haymarket Scrapbook


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The Scrapbook in American Life


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This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.







Create Your Family History Book with Family Tree Maker, Version 8


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Family Tree Maker is a program that allows users to input their family information and produce a variety of charts, reports, and customizable family history books. Entered data can be used to create web pages and saved in a format that can be shared with anyone who has a GEDCOM compliant genealogy program. Family Tree Maker has the largest Internet genealogy community in the world and provides access to over 1 billion names. Plus, the unique FamilyFinder Index actually helps guide you where to look for them.




The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy


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With millions of records now available online, those interested in their family history have a wealth of information—and misinformation—at their fingertips. In this book, author Kimberly Powell, the About.com Guide to Genealogy, helps both novice and experienced genealogists sort it all out. She shows readers where to search and which key-words they’ll need to create an accurate family tree—from start to finish. With this book, readers will learn how to create an online search strategy, use search engines and Soundex to find kin, reach out to others with peer-to-peer record swapping, discover useful records from around the world, and more. Packed with tips on free databases, search sites, and downloadable government records, readers will have all they need to use the Web to dig out their family’s true tale!




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







My Pearl Harbor Scrapbook 1941


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A re-created World War II nostalgic-style scrapbook details Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, and its repercussions, integrating authentic photographs, newspaper clippings, maps, telegrams, and a multitude of vintage artifacts.