Meryl's heritage Album Scrap & Chat Wednesday 10 - 11 p.m EST - Page 3

Starling · 02-26-2005, 08:05 AM

I haven't come to any of the chats yet, but I have a question for the group. Perhaps some of you have some ideas.

How do you scrap genealogy where there are no photos? I have one photo of one grandmother. I have scrapped that. There are no others that I know about.

I do have wedding photos for my parents, which haven't been scrapped yet, but which will be.

I did look at the layouts where you used documents for the backgrounds. I have some documents including 1930 census for my parents, and all of the uncles and aunts except one. I thing Uncle David must have been in the hospital and ancestry.com hasn't indexed hospitals yet. I haven't given up.

I can't find my grandfather in the 1920 census. He was in the US, but I believe he wasn't counted that year.

I have jpegs of the census documents and also of a lot of the ship manifests for almost everyone. And my great grandmother's 1923 New York City death certificate which gives her parent's names.

But no photos. Help!

*MaureenH* · 02-26-2005, 11:35 AM

I wouldn't use any meaningful documents as background unless it is duplicative. You and others in the future will want to be able to read those valuable documents easily. I've added to document layouts things like a map of the area where the ancestors lived as background, images of the area or country where they were from, such as the tulips or windmills from Holland. You might include a small photo of yourself or the person who got the census data. I'd also mat or frame the document similar to the way you'd treat a photo.

**shazzt** · 02-26-2005, 12:08 PM

You could always try to get some historical photos of the area they lived in or if you know particular stories, photos or clip art relevant to the story.

Starling · 02-26-2005, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bentrdr

I wouldn't use any meaningful documents as background unless it is duplicative. You and others in the future will want to be able to read those valuable documents easily. I've added to document layouts things like a map of the area where the ancestors lived as background, images of the area or country where they were from, such as the tulips or windmills from Holland. You might include a small photo of yourself or the person who got the census data. I'd also mat or frame the document similar to the way you'd treat a photo.

In some cases what I have is a photocopy of a microfilm. In other cases what I have are digital files from the Web. The digital files are better than the photocopies in almost all cases. In the case of my grandfather's ship manifest, the digital copy was cleaned up and can be read, the photocopy was from an allmost unreadible microfilm page.

Since I only digital scrapbook, I wouldn't be using originals anyway, but I decided I had better make what I am considering clear before anyone gets frightened that I might destroy a piece of history.

Starling · 02-26-2005, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shazzt

You could always try to get some historical photos of the area they lived in or if you know particular stories, photos or clip art relevant to the story.

Excellent thought. I have the addresses of the Lower East Side apartments my mother and my father lived in in 1920. She was 11 and living with her parents. He was in his early 20s and his younger sister and brother came to the US to live with him in 1921. My understanding is that I might be able to get photos of the two buildings. I need to check that out.

But even if I can't, there should be loads of historical photos of the Lower East Side of New York in the 1920s.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Starling · 02-26-2005, 01:38 PM

OK, so I can do something with New York City in the 1920s. What do I do with Rhodes in 1900. Or Jerusalem, roughly at the same time. There might be photos of Jerusalem, but I don't think I'll find any for the Island of Rhodes.

**Meryl** · 02-27-2005, 11:02 PM

At our last chat Sallie mentioned that she'd found some lovely lingerie brushes at Adobe, when she looked again they were gone....... she has been good enought to email me to say they have once more reappeared - you will find them here

Thanks so much Sallie!

alamodedesigns · 02-28-2005, 09:14 PM

Here is my post link:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...cat=500&page=1

Timmysmum · 03-01-2005, 06:47 AM

Here's my link

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com...cat=500&page=1

I actually did this one as a paper scraplift challenge for the down under crop. But I applied just about every filter and effect on the photo so thought it qualified for the 'dreamy look too.. lol
Thanks for looking
Sue

txminx · 03-04-2005, 11:21 PM

The New York Public Library has opened a digital gallery of over 275,000 photos.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Lot's of nice stuff for heritage.

**Meryl** · 03-30-2005, 10:47 PM

I'll be in the chat room 6th April, carrying prizes to give away, but this week we will leave Heritage, because its party week! Yes, starting 1st April (DSP's birthday) we will have a week long party - watch for the calendar of fun events!
I look forward to seeing you all!

*Karen Bowers* · 04-02-2005, 09:44 PM

This link will show you my latest heritage page.

Starling · 04-17-2005, 08:10 AM

I've got a couple of heritage pages to share. I've been doing my husband's parents from his wallet photos.

His Parents

and

His Mother

Both photos needed a lot of work after 45 years in a wallet. The photo of his mother didn't have much background left above the bush so I had to reconstruct it. They both had a lot of dust, scratches and dents. I also scanned them larger than the originals, which were pretty obviously wallet sized.

Starling · 04-19-2005, 08:56 AM

I've uploaded a layout from the ad inspiration given at the last chat. It is HERE

A while back I asked how to scrap an event where there are no photos to be had. It was suggested that I go online and find historical photos to use. I did that and I finally made the first Lower East Side page. The ad worked very well and it was interesting working from an ad.

Starling · 05-22-2005, 04:24 PM

Well, now I know why I couldn't find this thread. No one has posted a link to it, or updated the heritage challenge for over a month.

Is there a specific challenge for this week? Or two week period? Or month?

I like challenges because well... they, well.... They challenge me.

I know I've continued to post heritage layouts, and that I'm not the only one doing that. But I haven't been able to locate this thread to post a link for the last one or two.

Am I the only one who missed having this thread available?