So I have an odd question...

breoni

breoni

GingerScraps Site Creative Team
Hubby and I are updating our wills, and I realize that I've not named a beneficiary for all of my printed scrapbooks. I understand that I don't HAVE to name someone to inherit the specific books. But I'm debating if I should hand them down to someone who could be the next family historian. Hubby and I have one daughter, age 22, and she has no interest in scrapbooks, history, or anything outside her social media platforms. So I may decide to pass them down to one of the the nephews or nieces.

Also, I have a lot of online resources (such as all of my photos on Smugmug and Shutterfly). I asked our attorney about how to list online or digital assets in my will, and he just blinked at me (apparently, I was the first person to ask him that). I think for the time being, I'll just list all of my online assets complete with the link, user name, and password for each. And then update that list when we periodically update the wills.

I'm curious if anyone else has figured out good solutions for these issues. :)
 
My youngest daughter understands my love of scrapbooking and appreciates the layouts I create so I have given her my smugmug information so that she can get into it to download my thousands of LOs and put them on a USB/EXD. She will then get them printed into albums. I will tag my LOs that need printing so she can do a search and know which haven't been printed yet.
 
I have a password app (dashlane) and keep all my passwords in that. My son has the key to that, plus it is in our safety deposit box. Our attorney did understand digital assets and made sure we considered that.
 
I have two daughters and one is more interested than the other so she will get the bulk of my pages.
 
Good question...one night we had dinner with the boys and the topic of scrapbooking came up as usual. So...I asked each son what would you do with my scrapbooks when I am gone...one answered chuck them, he is a minimalist and the other said put them on a shelf and admire them, he has gone on many of the vacations with me...guess who gets them?? I am actually hoping to will them to my only grand-daughter that I make yearly books for already.
 
As you know, most of my pages are journaling. As I do them, I make books. I can get three months in a book and then print them out for my children. Some of the grandkids say they love them, some of the kids not so much, but knowing what happens when loved ones die, I hope they will all be appreciated at that time. That way, I don't need to worry about it.
 
My children have no interest in scrapbooking, but my youngest grand-daughter is learning to scrap and love working on them with me when she visits. So she will be getting everything that has to do with scrapbooking. She loves spending time with me and working on layouts. As for the pictures I have made copies for each of my children. Which they appreciate now, both sons and their wives lost some picture and came to me because they knew I had copies. It is sad that the a lot of the newer generations are not into keeping memories of family and getting together with family more often. You don't see family reunions like they use to be...Very sad.
 
I try to get books printed and then pass them on to the recipient of that book. However, I'm behind on printing them. I'm hoping my daughter will want to keep them, as memories of her parents.
She will have passwords to my ancestry tree. I'm not so sure how much interest my husband's older has, in much of anything I do. I have made books for them and they seemed to be appreciated. However when I've asked for photos to make something- I haven't gotten them.
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My hubby and I have no children, so there is no one to inherite my books. I suppose they wil be destroyed.
The notary is the executor of our will, goods will be sold and money that is left will be devided between several charities.
 
I've been thinking about this since you originally posted, and I don't have an answer yet. I don't think anyone will want my physical books, other than my husband, so I'm ok if they're destroyed after we're both gone. I do need to figure out what to do with our digital libraries. I think my sister and stepson would want digital copes of my LO's rather than the paper books.
 
I'm so appreciative of everyone's answers. One of the small towns I had lived in had a collection of personal diaries of founders. It makes me wonder if any museums would want collections of scrapbooks to document what life was like during this time. Hmmmm....????
 
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