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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:17:32 GMT
I saved some old threads from the two peas scrapping board and I'll try to post them as I remember and have time. So here's a condensed version of one thread I found helpful. Feel free to add other ideas.
Posts are NOT written by me: My two grandparents both died in 2010 (my mother's mother, and my dad's mother). One of the things they left behind was a box of photos - dating from the early 1920s and up until the 1990s. Not many photos were taken, but the ones there are, I would like to preserve, scrap and supplement my parents and my own memories. However, I haven't yet decided whether to make one album including both lines of the family or one album for each grandmother. Some of the pictures have both women in them, and also have the next generations in them…so if I do two albums, some of the photos will be "double up". Also, in some of the photos my great-grandmother appears - and them I have a third line of story. How have you scrapbooked your ancestors - have you combined both your parents' lines in one album, or have you made one album for each person? Any ideas? Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:17:50 GMT
First recommendation is to scan the photos. Then copying is no longer an issue, plus preservation from fading, etc. can be affected. Plus you may decide on digital books tailord for each line in the family. Once again making multiple copies would be easier.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:18:39 GMT
In my family section, I've divided it by person/branch. Most of the layouts about my maternal grandparents are together. My paternal grandparents are another section. Once we get to the section where my parents got together, the lines fuzz a bit. My layouts are mostly in chronological order, but I'm happy to take a layout out of chronological order and put it with other layouts relating to that person or that relationship if that is better suited to the overall story.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:18:55 GMT
I also don't duplicate layouts. In the case of the photo of both grandmothers, I'd just choose one album (or being that you have multiple photos of them together, choose different photos for each album).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:19:22 GMT
I have one heritage album. It is divided into sections. Section one is mom's family, section two is dad's side of the family and section three is where the lines begin to blend. It ends with mom and dad's wedding photos. The photos with the next generation in them went into the album that chronicles my childhood.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:19:35 GMT
Definitely scan and reprint the photos first. Scrap only the copies.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:20:04 GMT
I have way too many pictures to do one album so I have my mom's side in one big album and one big album of my dad's side.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 16:20:22 GMT
I always scrap originals when I have them to preserve them, never cropping or putting stuff on the page that will compromise them.
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Post by rosered on Nov 18, 2014 18:19:30 GMT
I scrap the originals, no cropping, in one album. I also scan them into the computer to use later.
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 19, 2014 21:11:16 GMT
Definitely scan and reprint the photos first. Scrap only the copies. Disagree adamantly. There is no safer place for originals than in an archivally safe acid free environment. I always scrap originals when I have them. Do not like to see people use copies if they have originals. What do you do with the originals if not scrap them. That said, I do not crop them ever and I also use a variety of techniques to keep adhesive and other things off the surface of the photo.
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 19, 2014 21:12:38 GMT
I also scrapped paternal side in one album, maternal side in another album.
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