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Scrapbooking Your Family History: The Ultimate Workbook (Leisure Arts #4295) (Creating Keepsakes)

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Two hobbies in one!!!----Scrapbooking and Genealogy. Within the almost 200 pages of this book, you will find everything you need to create a wonderful keepsake of your family history.

You can begin by downloading all the checklists, forms page planners and worksheets you need for FREE! Yep, FREE! The URL is on page 11. Then move on two the first chapter --- Getting Started. This describes the different types of history projects you could do such as school memories or family stories.

Other information in this chapter includes project organization, finding time, photo layout planners, supplies you will need, places to find the information including Internet sites, a sample letter to send when you are requesting information and a research log to keep track of where you have look and who you have asked.

Interspersed in this chapter are color layouts of various scrapbook pages to kick start your own creative ideas.

The rest of the book is laid out in chapters that include family, babies, childhood/teen years, adult years and family traditions. Each page within each chapter has a scrapbook layout on one side and a worksheet or photo layout page on the other. When you read the information on the pages, you will see how the information that was gathered was laid out/used to create a history keepsake. There are ideas for color and embellishments such as 3-D flowers, buttons or lace.

The final pages provide a six page supply list of items used to create a particular page and an Index divided by albums, checklist forms, page planners and worksheets.

If you love genealogy or scrapbooking or BOTH, SCRAPBOOKING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY will be on of your best tools.

This book has so many fabulous, helpful tips for organizing and presenting family history--both with photos AND written word.

It really helps the user to get a grasp on an overwhelming project.

Workbook has great lay-outs, great forms that can be downloaded and intersting, informative information. This book can help you get organized so one can use their time scrapbooking more effectively.

You cannot go wrong by purchasing this book. The layouts were good and the ideas were endless. It was a great purchase. My pages contained unique ideas. Your pages will look different and you will have ideas galore for your pages. Buy the book-you will love it!

I found this book to be useful with all of the links to free forms.

I am very pleased with this purchase. It is a wonderful workbook. I am so looking forward to using it with my daughter and sisters.
I would recommend it to anyone looking for ideas for a family history book.

Excellent service from the vender. The book arrived in excellent condtion. This book has been a great source for ideas for my family history and genealogy projects. In contains excellent forms and worksheets for free!