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Writing up your family's history, and preparing it for publication, can be one of the most rewarding things you ever do. In this book John Titford explains how straightforward the whole process can be, from getting started and assembling the material you have, to actually writing and then producing it yourself in a printed form, simply and inexpensively. There is carefully presented advice on all aspects of the process including editing, laying it out, printing, and the costs that may be involved. The result of all your labors need not be costly, and will almost certainly bring immense satisfaction to you and your family. The book offers a stimulus of practical encouragement to all those involved with tracing their ancestors.

This unique book combines the general surge of interest in genealogy with the popularity of memory crafts and journal-making. The projects featured encompass many mixed-media techniques and provide beautiful ideas for creating family trees that will become family heirlooms and keepsakes. The book divides projects into three styles: family trees designed to be hung as a piece of artwork on a wall; family tree books and journals; and dimensional family trees that take a more sculptural approach. Each project includes clear and concise directions as well as tips about storytelling, information gathering and sidebars. Full-colour templates and clip art for various types of family trees are also included.

In To Our Children's Children, bestselling author and nationally syndicated columnist Bob Greene and his sister, journalist D. G. Fulford, have created an attractive and engaging guidebook that makes recording a personal hisrory as uncomplicated and easy as writing a letter. A brief introduction sets the tone of fond remembrance, followed by chapters of questions designed to elicit answers that will form the patchwork of a fascinating personal history. To Our Children's Children concentrates on the particulars of life, the basics, askng engaging questions that open the doors of memory, in chapters like "The House of Your Growing Up", "Everyday Life", "Homefront", and more.

Leading scrapbook experts share hundreds of their favorite tips and techniques to instruct and inspire the creation of beautiful family albums that will be cherished for generations to come! Clear step-by-step instructions show how to organize, protect, and display treasured photos.

This voume shows scrapbookers and beginner genealologists how to uncover their ancestry and display it in a heritage album. Readers will learn to: find and identify family photographs; put their ancestors into historical perspective; interpret historical documents and more.

Scrapbooking can be more than just a craft: it can become a window into important family history. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come.

A beautiful kit with all the essentials for creating a permanent record for your family -- a keepsake that will be cherished for generations. Designed to help you document treasured information, achievements and priceless stories.
185 color photos & illustrations.

Document special memories, family traditions, hopes and dreams, significant events, and loved ones in "My Paper Memory Quilt: A Family History Pack created to record the special qualities and remembrances that make each person unique. Twenty-four paper quilt squares are provided to help get started. Includes exciting craft ideas and suggestions for classroom use!

When family historians discover the value of their heritage, they naturally want to share it with their children and grandchildren. In "Connecting the Generations, the author offers a mother lode of ideas that will help family historians infuse the next generation with an appreciation of their heritage, including how to use family activities, visits to historical sites and museums, scrapbooks, heirlooms--and much more--to captivate and create lasting memories for children.

WRITING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY contains a wealth of valuable information on the subject of researching your family history. From getting started to selecting and storing information, developing a writing style, advice on computers, useful tips on grammar and punctuation, dealing with writer's block, choosing the paper on which to print, or marketing and distribution in the case of a larger print run. This essential book will help you to make your family history a publication to be proud of.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if our children, and generations to come, could learn directly from their ancestors about the world they knew? Now they can with HAND ME DOWN HISTORIES. This special book is the perfect gift for grandparents, parents and children alike. It preserves the wonderful stories, photographs and memories of by-gone ages that are so important to family history. With exceptional design, quality of paper and a beautifully constructed path to help the reader ask the right questions of their relatives and chart their own family story, it is the perfect place to collate photographic treasures, ageing documents and family tree workings.

One of the first four books in the Instant Memories series. Each of these books offers 57 scrapbook pages ready for your photographs. Simply tear them out along the perforated edge, add photographs and diary entries in the spaces provided, and you have a beautiful, vintage scrapbook page in minutes. For added value, each book comes with a CD that contains all of the images that make up each individual page. Hundreds of images at your fingertips for use in scrapbook, fabric transfer, and woodcrafts. Eight pages of gallery ideas are provided to demonstrate how the artwork can be used.