Reviews

Family history memorabilia is a good source of material for creative scrapbooking. Digitized photographs can be cropped, glued, and combined with ephemera and photocopied documents to make interesting memory book pages with no fear of damage to the originals. Geneologist Best suggests various ways for laying out pages that deal with events ranging from family holidays to day-to-day activities. These pages, however, do not feature much informational text, so they would better serve as illustrative material to more formal family histories. Unlike Bev Kirschner Braun's Crafting Your Own Heritage Album or Best's own Genealogy for the First Time, this book does not cover the techniques of genealogical research to any extent. Public libraries needing supplementary books on family history scrapbooking will find this a fine addition. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.