Digital Scrapbooker: A Family Historian

One of my favorite hobby is digital scrapbooking.  Even though I don’t have much time to spend on it, I’m trying to make it a priority to work on it a little at a time.

I don’t remember who told me but that person saw digital scrapbooking as a way to document your family’s history.  A person putting memories of his life in a book is like being the family’s historian.

Some people like the paper scrapbooking but I like digital scrapbooking for several reasons:

1. If I crop a picture the wrong size, I can always undo it and try cropping it to the correct size.
2. If I want to change the color of a background or the frame of a picture, that would be easy to do with the computer.  I can actually see what the pages would look like with different colors and change it to the one I like.
3. By making a digital scrapbook page or book, I can print multiple copies to send to other family members.  Even more, I can even personalize it by changing some text when giving it to a family member.
4. There is no mess with papers, glue and pictures where kids can get their hands on them. 

I’ll need to be a little more organized with my time if I want to pass our memories on to our grandchildren.  Involving the children is another way to further this effort.  I thought the children could choose a picture or two that they like and create a scrapbook page.

How will you pass on your family’s history to your grandchildren and great grandchildren?

photo credit: KellyB.