Ancestry scrapbook

Ever since my fiance treated me to an Ancestry membership last Christmas, our family photos and findings have been shared amongst close ones on Facebook. We've found it extremely fascinating, discovered secrets, tragedies and long

This is the sixth and final post of my Family History Binder series. Click here to go back to part one. In each section of my binder, I placed copies of every document I had about each individual i…

New genealogy and history apps and updates

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Welcome back to our blog, crafty friends! I’m super-excited to be BACK with more heritage scrapbooking, and this time we’re aiming for a monthly “episode”! Maybe I should ca…

Illegitimacy was not uncommon in earlier centuries. About 5% of all children born in England and Wales between 1837 and 1965 were illegitimate, which means they were born out of wedlock. Many family tree researchers will find during their research that there is at least one illegitimate ancestor in their family. Illegitimacy is no longer

I think it is a very nice way to connect the photos to the records. Also a way to display information that relatives not generally interested in genealogy could appreciate. Could be done with digital scrapbooking.