Heritage Scrapping

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Who enjoys scrapping heritage layouts?

Has anyone successfully combined them in a book or album?

Do you integrate 'trees' and pictures of ancestors? What else do you include?

Any particularly good kits anyone recommends?

I have a pretty decent family tree on ancestry, which I have been working on forEVER and my mother's 90th is coming up. I thought I would make her a really interesting book from a combination of tree and pictures. The only thing is, I can't really come up with a good organization...
 
I have to admit, I haven't done much heritage scrapping. I really should, since I can easily get pictures from my mom. I really like your pages though, Lynnie!

As for kits, I really like this one from Neverland Scraps (yes, I do own it):

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Oh man...I have some great heritage photos and content that has been handed down. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I have been left the task of "family historian" after losing my Mom in 2010 and Dad in 2011. It was a project of my Mom's for quite a few years before she passed, however, she didn't get very far.

I scrap as the spirit moves me, sometimes with some meaningful journal, sometimes a date on a page...but always photos. I don't think the pages necessarily have to "match" or even be in chronological order. I've given my Aunt (my Mom's only sister) an album of mismatched pages and she absolutely adored the randomness of it.

Here are some from my gallery:

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I love your layouts, Cindy ... I can remember sending a private message asking if the diary was a real diary or an element and I was so thrilled to find out it was real.

I am definitely the family historian - I maintain the family tree, such as it is and work hard to distribute pictures to ensure we all have them. It is so much easier in this day and age. Every so often I get to an impasse in the family tress and it is so frustrating, then I leave it a while and something new comes up :)

There must be an artful, yet organized way for me to combine the family tree with all the family history and pictures i have. I have quite a few pictures going back to my great grandparents, and some to my great great grandparents. I really want to create a book that the whole family will get to enjoy and experience their family tree.

I love that kit, Ane - it is beautiful.
 
I have done a TON of heritage layouts - What I find fun is taking black and white and obviously 'tame" photos and using them with artsy, messy, art journal type kits - like this one:



One of my favorites:


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Loving seeing all the pages...really inspiring me to dig up and scan some more photos. I honestly have boxes, and boxes, and boxes! I love them just sometimes frustrating when I don't know who is in them.
 
CindyB said:
Loving seeing all the pages...really inspiring me to dig up and scan some more photos. I honestly have boxes, and boxes, and boxes! I love them just sometimes frustrating when I don't know who is in them.
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I understnd this. I'm also kicking myself because I didn't take the time with my Momma for her to tell me who everyone was in the pictures she had. All the older generation is gone that could have told us who the people were. :(
 
I hear ya Susan...my Mom passed suddenly and we really were trying to sift through all my Grandmother's photos and such. She left me with a lot of unanswered questions. Thankfully, my Aunt (Mom's sister), loves technology...so I text her pictures and questions often. But even so, she was the youngest, so she sometimes is in the same boat.
 
CindyB said:
I hear ya Susan...my Mom passed suddenly and we really were trying to sift through all my Grandmother's photos and such. She left me with a lot of unanswered questions. Thankfully, my Aunt (Mom's sister), loves technology...so I text her pictures and questions often. But even so, she was the youngest, so she sometimes is in the same boat.
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My aunt is still alive, but Mom was the one who talked to Gramma about the "old days" on the farm. On my Dad's side, there is no one to ask. Both Grandparents are gone. My Dad is gone, and so is his sister. His brother is still alive, but he is a jerk and left the family long ago, so I wouldn't ask him even if I knew where he was.
 
We are doing the most fabulous thing right now. My mother's 90th birthday is approaching and we are having a big party for her. In preparation, we have encouraged her to write her life story. She writes everything, then sends it to my brother and I and we add our questions and send it back to her. She lives with me, but I send it via email so she can update it.

She is loving it. She works on it, then sends it right away and begs for more questions. If you have a beloved family member, then do that NOW while you can get the questions answered.

I did the same thing with my grandfather in the 1970s. I got him on tape telling his stories, and again with my mother-in-law before she died. They are all so priceless. I also sat my dad and my aunt down and got THEM telling stories. They are so much fun to listen to. All I have left now is my mum, but I have their voices and videos telling their tales. I feel very fortunately.

I also took my aunt through the pictures I have asking who everyone was. FOr the most part I know who most people are.
 
I also went the extra step of finding pictures of the things and places she described. She talked about a flower clock in a park and I found pictures. She almost cried. She talked about her mum doing washing with a dolly peg, a mangle and dolly blue. I found pictures. I found pictures of her street that was bombed during the war, the church where her parents were married. I wish I had a thousand hours in a day so I could scrap all of them. Sadly, I will just be able to add them to the story - but that is good, too. Over time, I can scrap it all.
 
That sounds like an amazing project Lynnie...you're bound to have a wonderful collection and the fact you can find photos to go along with the stories is just extraordinary
 
For kicks, I just googled "Wheat Basin, Montana" which was the town my Grandparents purchased. There was a wiki and they even mentioned their name!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_Basin,_Montana

My G-Grandparents were the Riopels they mentioned.

And oh, I found this picture of my Gramma and Great Gramma in the mercantile store!!! you can barely see them - they're in the back - gramma Peggy on the right and G-Grandma Frances on the left!

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I found a link to a book that my mom and her cousin made about the town, and it can be ordered!! I thought it was lost to us forever! Next paycheck I am buying it!

Thank you for prompting me to look!!
 
Wow, Susan, that is a wonderful story. It is like Magic when you find something like that. Almost as much fun as finding my great great great grandfather died in a lunatic asylum. That accounts for a lot of strange behaviour in my family haha.
 
My sister and I found boxes of old photos when we had to clean out our parents' attic a few years ago. I scanned them, not only to preserve them, but so I could scrap them. I made a scrapbook of LO's I made of my mom's family for an aunt and uncle. I included a couple of letters my uncle wrote about my grandparents and one page with a tree. I'm in the process of making a scrapbook for my daughter including both my and my husband's families. I just print these on my own printer.
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FormbyGirl said:
Wow, Susan, that is a wonderful story. It is like Magic when you find something like that. Almost as much fun as finding my great great great grandfather died in a lunatic asylum. That accounts for a lot of strange behaviour in my family haha.
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Oh my!!! We all have skeletons in our closets, don't we?
 
beckturn said:
My sister and I found boxes of old photos when we had to clean out our parents' attic a few years ago. I scanned them, not only to preserve them, but so I could scrap them. I made a scrapbook of LO's I made of my mom's family for an aunt and uncle. I included a couple of letters my uncle wrote about my grandparents and one page with a tree. I'm in the process of making a scrapbook for my daughter including both my and my husband's families. I just print these on my own printer.
I am new here so I have nothing in the gallery. This is from my gallery on another site.
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Can I just say how lucky we are that you landed at Gingerscraps after your other site closed down! This is a beauty :) Post it here, please!!
 
So jealous of those of you who have old photos! I'm adopted, so I have no idea of my heritage. As for my adoptive family, well, my mom is the youngest of 10 kids and my dad the second-youngest of 10 (large French Canadian Catholic families!) I have a feeling that any heritage family photos would have ended up with one of their older siblings!
 
My friend's mother is the second youngest of 21. They have managed to digitize the pictures and spread them liberally against all descendants of the 21. They also do family reunions. We have spread all our pictures between the descendants of my great grandmother.

As for adoption - well, they are now your 'real' family, right! :)

If not, you are welcome to scrap some of mine, haha.
 
FormbyGirl said:
My friend's mother is the second youngest of 21. They have managed to digitize the pictures and spread them liberally against all descendants of the 21. They also do family reunions. We have spread all our pictures between the descendants of my great grandmother.
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That's amazing. Because my parents were the "babies" their older siblings were married and gone by the time they were born. Most of them moved away and never returned, as they couldn't afford to! As a result, I have aunts and uncles I've never met, and hundreds (yes, hundreds) of cousins I've never met. So they don't know me and I don't know them, and I have no idea who would even have any family history/heritage or how to contact them. I'm amazed at large families where everyone has managed to stay in touch.
 
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That's amazing. Because my parents were the "babies" their older siblings were married and gone by the time they were born. Most of them moved away and never returned, as they couldn't afford to! As a result, I have aunts and uncles I've never met, and hundreds (yes, hundreds) of cousins I've never met. So they don't know me and I don't know them, and I have no idea who would even have any family history/heritage or how to contact them. I'm amazed at large families where everyone has managed to stay in touch.
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So many people keep in touch through Facebook and Heritages sites. If it is interesting to you, you could try to track down a site with your family name and see if you can track down relationships that way. I have done that with my mother's grandmother's family. It is so interesting to meet new cousins for the first time.
 
I started a family tree on Ancestry and have been working on it for several months now. I have been surprised by the number of distant relatives that have contacted me through it. It has been nice getting to know them and sharing pictures
 
I sat w/ my (88 yr old) mom recently and went thru a box of treasured photos. I've scrapped a few, and then I made her a calendar. I actually mixed heritage scrap pages of her and my dad's families with current scrap pages of my kids to fit whichever month it was. Then there's pages like the one of my brother and I as toddlers and a shot of us recently. She loves it. I'm a multi kit girl, I sort out all my kits by type of element so I can peruse what I want.
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glee said:
I sat w/ my (88 yr old) mom recently and went thru a box of treasured photos. I've scrapped a few, and then I made her a calendar. I actually mixed heritage scrap pages of her and my dad's families with current scrap pages of my kids to fit whichever month it was. Then there's pages like the one of my brother and I as toddlers and a shot of us recently. She loves it. I'm a multi kit girl, I sort out all my kits by type of element so I can peruse what I want.
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Your heritage stuff is fabulous, Glee. I love it!

quilter said:
Haven't met any of the rest of your family darlin' but maybe explains a couple of your idiosyncrasies. • . . . . . probably why I like you so much , probably a relative of mine or 6 there as well , but mine back that far were in Bohemia , now the Czech Republic. Of course what they considered - lunatics then were probably you & me now. I wish more of my history had been preserved - I'm only 3rd generation on paternal side & 4th on maternal side US citizen .
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Haha! Yes, probably explains more than one idiosyncrasy. Good that we are living now and not back then, eh, Jeanne? We might be in serious trouble.
 
bkasko said:
I started a family tree on Ancestry and have been working on it for several months now. I have been surprised by the number of distant relatives that have contacted me through it. It has been nice getting to know them and sharing pictures
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I know, I am in a Facebook Group that shares lots of stuff. I love it!
 
"Pachimac" you totally knocked it out of the ball park w/ today's post. I just wanted to tell you that the only reason I didn't give you a Baker's Best nom for it is cuz as a member of the CT, you can't really win the week. I always try to give someone who doesn't get nominated often a chance. But I am over the moon about your sweet sweet journaling, make no mistake. Everyone: here's what I'm talking 'bout:
 
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