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come from and influences who you are. It can establish a sense of familial connectedness across lifetimes and continents.

In Scrapbooking Your Family History, Maureen Taylor shows you how to uncover your ancestry, then record and display it in an attractive, well-organised heritage album packed with important papers, pictures, and memorabilia. It's a format for telling the story of your genealogy in words and pictures that anyone can understand- even children.

Whether you're a beginning genealogist, an experienced scrapbooker, or somewhere in between, Taylor makes getting started easy. She'll show you how to:

• Begin your family history research properly
• Trace your family tree
• Organise and care for your scrapbook materials
• Create an album that will last using archive-quality materials and techniques
• Find and identify family photographs
• Locate and interpret historical documents about your ancestors
• Glean new information from old postcards, keepsakes, and other family artefacts
• Put your ancestors in historical perspective through interviews, the library, and the Internet
• Tell the story of your family through captions and charts
• Define a theme for your heritage album through planning, sorting, and layout
• Organise leftover papers, pictures, and heirlooms with proper storage techniques
• Delve into family research beyond the confines of your heritage album

Each chapter includes skill building exercises, genealogical resource profiles, extensive illustrations, hands-on tutorials, and more. Taylor will help you create a family history scrapbook that's both beautiful and personal, something you'll treasure for the rest of your life. Start scrapbooking your family history today. Future generations could ask for no finer legacy.

Softcover; 128 pages. Maureen Taylor