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1000memories - Bring your past into the present

1000Memories is a shoebox of sorts that anyone can use free of charge to post photos, documents, stories, etc. and make their family history available to others. They have an app, free, for your Iphone to turn it into a portable scanner, which can be very handy.

About.com - Heritage Scrapbook Album Information

About.com - Heritage Scrapbooking: Part I

About.com - Heritage Scrapbooks - Scrapbooking Your Family History

About.com - Scrapbooking Your Family History

Ancestry.com - Ancestry Daily News Archive - Preserving Family History

Archive of free articles online.

Caring for Your Family Archives

From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Heritage Scrap- Vintage and Heritage Themed Digital Scrapbooking

Digital artistry for your family tree.

Lula BLILEY's Photo Album Production Overview

Comprehensive resource on the development of a multimedia CD-ROM of the 1931 family photo album of Lula DAWSON BLILEY. Contents include: background story, description of tools and techniques, legal issues, preparation for cross-platform, media selection, CD-ROM file structure and naming choices, extensive Read Me file from CD. Samples of navigation techniques for HTML and PDF versions. Link to HTML version on the Internet. CD includes: album materials in HTML, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and Photoshop-native formats.

Preserving Your Family History

Online genealogy store, selling products to create a family heritage or family history album as well as charts, how-to books,scrapbooking products and supplies, and helpful information and links to start your family tree research.

Questioning Photo Manipulation

Tools to digitally change photographs are very powerful. Do we use this power for good or ill in genealogy? An online article by Mark Howells.

Scrapbook and Home Archives Preservation

Scrapbooking Guide

Scrapbooking.com

An online monthly scrapbooking magazine.

Scraplink.com

The New Homemaker: Scrapbooking Your Family History, Part One

Articles by Alessia Cowee.

The Scrapbooking Library

Tips on Creating an Archival Scrapbook or Photo Album

By Nancy Craft, for the Iowa Cooperative and Preservation Consortium.

Using Technology to Frame the Past - Electronic Scrapbooking

Article by Mark Howells.

Your Family Legacy - Family History Journal

Have you thought about keeping a journal of your family heritage search? Not only will it record special memories, but also little facts and oddities you may uncover.