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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A new chat
8:01 AM | Posted by
Gabby Faye |
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1, I will be hanging out in the Ancestorville chat room on Facebook hoping there are some other Ancesterville residents interested in heritage scrapping. If you are on Facebook, contact me and I will direct you to one of the two chats at 3:00 EST and 8:00 EST.
I was in the chat room at Ancestorville one evening on another topic when I mentioned scrapping heritage, genealogy, ancestors, etc. There were a couple who didn't know what "scrapping" was, let alone heritage scrapping, digital or otherwise. There were a couple more who knew about scrapping but hadn't linked it to the stories of the ancestors. I know at least one who has already jumped into it and keeps me informed. I don't know all the answers, even if the "Mayor" of Ancestorville called me an "expert" but I have links...lots of links.
My suggestion for getting your feet wet is to choose one photo, piece of ephemera, or copy of an important record, scan it, place it loosely on a blank page and tell the story...every detail you know. I usually type mine on a computer but handwritten is even better. THEN go looking for backgrounds and decorations.
I was in the chat room at Ancestorville one evening on another topic when I mentioned scrapping heritage, genealogy, ancestors, etc. There were a couple who didn't know what "scrapping" was, let alone heritage scrapping, digital or otherwise. There were a couple more who knew about scrapping but hadn't linked it to the stories of the ancestors. I know at least one who has already jumped into it and keeps me informed. I don't know all the answers, even if the "Mayor" of Ancestorville called me an "expert" but I have links...lots of links.
My suggestion for getting your feet wet is to choose one photo, piece of ephemera, or copy of an important record, scan it, place it loosely on a blank page and tell the story...every detail you know. I usually type mine on a computer but handwritten is even better. THEN go looking for backgrounds and decorations.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Some More New Heritage Scrapbook Pages
10:31 AM | Posted by
Gabby Faye |
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My partner and his sister |
My mother with her older brother, my oldest uncle. |
It amazes me how little my own children absorb of things I tell them so getting the stories and photos together on these pages might help the old stories live on. It makes up for not having enough time to talk to my children with their busy lives.
Monday, May 23, 2011
More Frustration
7:39 AM | Posted by
Gabby Faye |
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It never ends, but if it did what would we have to do? I was unable to sleep the other night and decided to find out a bit about my late-ex-husband's grandmother. I had met her in Savannah in a nursing home while we were on our honeymoon. She thought her grandson was her son but on genealogy she was quite clear. She was Mary Mozelle Bourquin. Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com to the rescue. FTM is alsolinked to Genealogy.com and I have a membership so I didn't think a thing of it when her name came up in a Genealogy page in a book The Bourquin Family. I copied it all down by hand, at least what was important at the moment. Her birth date, (she was still alive when this book was done in 1936), dates of all of her children, their spouses, and their dates, and number of children as of 1936. I also had her parents' names and dates.
It was really late by then and I was tired. I skipped to the first page of the book and copied down the first entry, Jean Baptiste Bourquin, his birth date, that he was a physician, and immigration from Switzerland to South Carolina in 1738.
Then I went to bed. Now I cannot get back to that book any way. I may have to call the Gen Center in Salt Lake City. I cannot figure out why it doesn't show up any more.
It was really late by then and I was tired. I skipped to the first page of the book and copied down the first entry, Jean Baptiste Bourquin, his birth date, that he was a physician, and immigration from Switzerland to South Carolina in 1738.
Then I went to bed. Now I cannot get back to that book any way. I may have to call the Gen Center in Salt Lake City. I cannot figure out why it doesn't show up any more.
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