Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | preserving our family history
As memory keepers we strive to document and share our family stories. Whether you are looking to create an ancestry album or food for thought for today’s albums, you may find the principles of heritage scrapbooking just the ticket for you.
Heritage scrapbooking is the on-going process of gathering and organizing historical family material such as documents, keepsakes, photographs and stories to be placed into a scrapbook.
Heritage Scrapbooking
Heritage scrapbooking is not only about a certain style or time period but also a frame of mind. With just as much focus on the stories as photographs, heritage scrapbooking encourages connections between family members both past and present, preserves documents, keepsakes, photographs and stories, and highlights family history, traditions and values.
The everyday passes so quickly making today’s moments yesterday memories in a flash. Using heritage scrapbooking principles in today’s albums you can leave clues for future generations to see what our lives were like. Whether you are making a traditional/digital scrapbook or maybe taking on a Project Life/365 album there are many ways to incorporate these principles in our daily thinking as we create our scrapbooks. By building our scrapbooks in this creative fashion, we not only have something wonderful to share with family and friends, but a record of our family to keep and pass down to the future generations.
So join us as we discover the truth about heritage scrapbooking not only for yesterday’s memories, but for today’s and tomorrow’s as well. In the coming months we will be discussing the process of building our scrapbooks including our next article on gathering documents, keepsakes, photographs and stories.
6 Comments
Christy
January 22, 2013Yay- I’m looking forward to this series of articles!
Vicki I.
January 23, 2013I’m looking forward to this series too!
flowersgal
January 23, 2013I’ll definitely be following this series of articles and looking forward to each new one. Thanks.
Terri B
January 24, 2013As a genealogy buff and a crafter I’m very much looking forward to this series. Bring it on!! And thanks
Krista
January 27, 2013YAY!! I’m so glad you are excited! Get ready for some great inspiration!
Elissa
January 28, 2013It is always nice to learn new ideas on family history scrapbooking. I look forward to your future articles for more inspiration.