subject: The Fun Of Family Tree Scrapbooking [print this page] You are convinced that, if someone shook your family tree, monkeys, kooks, cavemen and redheads would fall to the ground and wander away in confusion. Family trees scrapbooking is an amazing way of archiving family information that helps people learn about historical events in their family, genetic gifts or diseases passed down, family names, family groups and who married who in 1817.
Family tree scrapbooking is a little different than a regular family tree. Family trees are charts or pages of written history all laid out in words and a smattering of pictures. Family tree scrapbooking takes the charts, pages of written history and those pictures and puts it all into a creative, colorful, and fun format that brings family history into the 21st century. Family tree scrapbooking takes a lot of time, money and patience in order to create a scrapbook, or scrapbooks, that hold all the information cherished by your family.
Like normal scrapbooking, family tree scrapbooking uses large books with empty pages just waiting for your creative touches. Family tree scrapbooking allows you to put pictures of your great great grandparents in a place of prominence, framed in gold lettering, beneath cut outs of 19th century objects, and a page over from pictures of their great great great grandchildren.
When deciding to take on the task of family tree scrapbooking, youll want to gather some supplies first. The most important thing youll need in order to undertake family tree scrapbooking is a detailed and well researched family archive and family tree. This means that, ahead of time, youll want to hire someone to create the archive or family tree so you can use it as a source of information as you prepare for family tree scrapbooking.
Once you have the family archive and family tree, you should choose scrapbooking decorations that apply to each generation of your family. Were your great grandparents farmers? Why not purchase a set of farm themed stickers, borders and stencils? If your parents spend every summer in Hawaii, you can decorate their pages with sketched palm trees, and a tiny bag of sand from Waikiki. The first generation of your family in the US were cobblers you can dedicate an entire section of your family scrapbook to the family should business pages of pictures surrounded by photos of the evolution of the shoe.
Family tree scrapbooking can take a long time, but because your family will continue to grow, the family tree scrapbook will fill with pictures and stories that you and generations after you can create with your own two hands.
