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I'm not sure what you are looking for. I did scrapbooks for each of my brothers and sisters of all of the direct line ancestors I had photos of for Christmas a few years ago. I did every page on black cardstock with white or silver journaling. All of the journaling was done by hand to give it the feel of an old photo album. Yes, even though I do not like my own handwriting I did this for the look and feel of the album. I made sure there was a matching page for each couple. For the ones I did not have a photo of I improvised with additional info on the person - obits if I had them, photo of the area they lived, etc. I made copies of the originals I had for the project. The obits were typed, reduced, and printed on acid free cardstock. I also made reduced size copies of marriage licenses if I had them for the page. By doing a two page LO for each couple I was able to include more info by dividing it between the pages. For ex: marriage cert on one page and photo of home on the other, etc.... I actually bought old postcards on ebay of the areas some of my ancestors lived. For my own album I am going to add pages for the children, but I felt this was more than my siblings wanted or needed as the expense was enough. I'm the second oldest of 9, so I made 8 albums. I made their albums 8.5x11, but mine will be 12x12 because I want to add photos for the homeplaces, family group photo if I have them, and other info. I did place a page in the front of the album for each one for themselves with a baby picture and later teen or young adult photo. I was able to do 6 generations counting my sibling back with only one photo missing and one couple in the seventh generation. I count myself lucky for having so many family photos. This was done before I started scanning and posting LO's. If I can get one of the albums back from one of my sisters I will try to scan a couple of pages and post them. Sandy

"Marcella" wrote in message news:Co6dnYAD053JtnfYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@insightbb.com...

If you've done any genealogy research online, you've probably run across the most helpful CyndisList.com site. Haven't been there myself in awhile, but just found by searching "genealogy scrapbooking" (without the quotes) on google that she has a scrapbooking section:

She includes a link to sample pages. Here's one page with about 10 sample pages:

More samples here:

And more sites with sample on Cyndi's List & elsewhere found on the google site (these two are the only ones I had time to check out). Have you tried asking your question on alt.genealogy? No idea how many scrapbookers there are among their regular posters, but they're more likely to be scrapbooking genealogy than the average scrapbooker.

Good luck! If you find any great sites, please share. I'm interested in both, too.

Alicia

Hi Marcella,

Not exactly sure what kind of ideas you want regarding your geneology scrapbook, but here are a few from me:

1) The typical family tree structure is always good (oldest to youngest - from page one onwards) 2) Like Sandy mentioned, capturing the locations where your family members live (lived) using postcards is also great... 3) As are copies of area maps (try Google Earth too, that's awesome!) 4) Adding local news clippings from library archives (for each persons city or state) can be kind of unique. 5) And before and after (baby to current) photo's of each family member are always fun (although sometimes hard to find) 6) Favorite recipes from each family member will never be timeless 7) Same goes for favorite song lyrics from each family member

And so on...

Sometimes deciding on a secondary theme for the album is helpful.

Warmest regards...Cijaye DePradine

I had forgotten about using the old newspaper clippings. I was reading one of the old papers on microfilm at our local library and I ran into an article where my great-grandmother's brother opened a bakery. When I read it I remembered my grandmother saying after her uncle opened his bakery they didn't have to bake bread as often as he gave the family the bread that was left over a couple of days. They used to send her uptown to pick it up from the bakery. That will be a great addition to one of the LO's with a small photo of a loaf of homemade bread - maybe as a tag or even greatly reduced and in a slide mount. Great idea. thanks for suggesting it.

Oh, by the way I do have three LO's in my webshots account from my heritage album. They are in the New Techniques album - Mom's Banana Cake and Kiefer Farm if you want to take a look.