How do you organize your heritage scrapbook?

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Permalink Reply by Lynette Wrenn/Heidel on September 11, 2011 at 8:25pm

I have started mine with my husband.   I have so much on my side of the family but had very little on his and when things started flowing with info I stopped everything to put his together.  I am still in the progress of  putting everything together of my family and have notebooks for each parent and grandparent.  No way am I organized but I am getting there.  The binders are put together and what relates to that person is in sleeves and on cardstock paper.  As I find new information it is easy to find the time frame and put in the approriate place.  I am finding also that paperwork doesn't have to wait in a file or folder, this is very convenient and also has let me realize when I have duplicates of the same info I can literally share with others.

I use regular school notebooks.  Cover with fabric and decorate the outside - I try to keep the theme of this with the character and traits of the person it includes.   

Thanks!

 

Permalink Reply by Laressa Northrup on September 11, 2011 at 8:27pm

I start with a grandparent and then do their parents and their siblings and then work my way back.  I am almost finished with my 3rd album.

 

Permalink Reply by Helen Curtis on September 12, 2011 at 7:13am

Mine has exploded since starting in the 1980's. I have a book for each line.

Permalink Reply by Jill Jones on November 28, 2011 at 8:57pm

I heritage scrap 8 1/2 x 11 and have a notebook for each surname that also contains documentation starting with the furthest generation back and working forward.