Booklist Review
Best combines two popular pastimes into one superlative volume sure to appeal to both ardent scrapbookers and amateur genealogists. After providing some general instructions and tips on organizing, collecting, and storing photographs and information, she details what supplies are needed and explains an assortment of ways scrapbook pages can be laid out. The bulk of the book is devoted to outlining the various arrangements and themes, including chronological, fashion, folklore and traditions, family lessons, household duties, occupations, homes, character traits, and current events. Lushly illustrated, this handy guide provides a wealth of practical and visual advice for family historians interested in a unique approach to preserving ancestral memories. --Margaret Flanagan Copyright 2005 Booklist
Library Journal Review
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. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
