Heritage Layouts...

[Voodoo_Bryn]

Okay, I feel like I'm in the scrapping minority here. I am not close to my family at all... and I don't have a scanner...

so I've never scrapped my past family at all... just my current one, is that weird, or are there any other scrappers like this?

also, completely off-topic, but The Ex-List made me think... how freakin' therapeutic would it be to scrap your Ex-List?? (Completely inappropriate for your current DH... but... my god, I'd like to have it for myself.)

[ditzyscrap]

I haven't scrapped much of my extended family - just my grandparents (recent photos). It's not something I'm really interested in doing.

[mrsmbm]

I haven't scrapped my family history either...but it's because I don't have access to pictures. If I could go to my mom's house and scan in all the albums and boxes (and boxes and boxes!) of photos that she has, I'd have a field day scrapping them and telling my family's story!

Some day...

[Paula]

I've scrapped tons of heritage LOs.

[Kat Stokes]

I could... but I'm too lazy to go get the pics from my mom and scan them.

[ColleenSwerb]

I'm hoping that my grandma will eventually come around to the fact that my family isn't made up horrible people, and will give us the boxes of old photos she has hidden in the apartment and in storage. I would love to scrap pics of my parents as kids, and the story of their parents and such.

I think it'd be really fun (and this JUST popped into my head now) to send out a little questionairre to my surviving grandparents and have them fill it out. About what life was like when they were kids, how they met each other and fell in love, etc etc. It makes me sad that I don't have that sort of stuff from my Dad's dad. I know in elementry school I interviewed him about WW2 (he was in the Navy and off the shores of Japan on VJ Day) but who knows where that report or the notes I took are.

I think it will be nice to have stuff like that for my kids, since my grandparents might not be around to meet them.

[Brooke W]

I have more family photos than anything else,lol. I've done a few heritage pages and need to do more, really.

[kscwgirl]

I've done a heritage book, and a few layouts here and there of my grandparents. My kids never knew them, so I'm doing it for them!!

[lizzyfizzy]

i would love to get into this. i have some super amazing pics of my family that i could scrap. its a matter of getting them all scanned. one day, i will.

[ditzyscrap]

I said I wasn't interested in "heritage" layouts for my own self, but I would like to scrap pics of myself growing up for my albums. My parents were AVID photo takers and there's so many good memories that I want to put down...if only I could get my photos out of my mother's grip...hahah.

[webseitler]

I've only ever scrapped my life from 2002 and on... I do want to make the kids some sort of "Guide to Who the Heck these People in the Old Pictures Are" book one day.

Add it to the list...

[Stacey42]

I have a LOT of old photos - grandparents, great grandparents, even a couple gret great grandparents. Plus I have a large number of photos identified as "Joe" or "Nelly, Kate & the gang" which are unidentifiable by anyone living. I once did a page with the title "Who Are These People?"

I've scrapped a number of layout with the photos but they need to be scanned and I'm lazy about scanning. IT's a PITA with my scanner. I'm going to go a massive scanning binge at Christmas though. I'm going to my folks for 10 days and am going to use their scanner to scan every old photo I can get my hands on.

[scrapmonkey]

While I have a whole bunch of heritage photos on one side going back all the way to the late 1800's, both my grandparents passed away before I was even involved in scrapbooking. So I don't even know what half of the photos are of. I was only able to get a bit of info from my Dad on that side before he passed away a couple years ago. I do have a bunch of my Grandpa's diaries, but no photos to match and it was from a part of his life that none of the family knew about until after he and my grandma passed away (like he had been married at least once if not twice and engaged at least three times before he even met my grandma).
On the other side, I don't have a lot of photos, but my grandma on that side wrote her life story and part of my grandpa's with the help of my uncle and I'm fortunate to have a copy of it.
The sad part is I have no children to pass these stories and photos down to. I'm the last of my family on my Dad's side and I feel an obligation to pass them down to someone. I've been tempted to track down the history of the woman (women maybe) my grandpa married before my grandma and see if there were any children from the marriage, though I doubt there are.