That's just the thing... crafty isn't the most important part. With Templates, you add photos, names, and a colored background paper and you have a great layout!

Really? Awesome

Send me an email to devon@familyhistoryfanatics.com and I'll share the templates.

With that scope of your project, it would depend on a few things. How many photos, documents, and stories do you have for each generation? Who is your audience? If you have a lot of photos, then you can spread multiple photos across 4, 6, or 8 pages. However, with 12 generations, and 8 pages each, you'll fast have a 100-page scrapbook. That could be a little much for your younger family members. I would suggest breaking this up into smaller books and create a series - one generation one book. Smaller books are looked at more often. If you have only a few documents and stories, then you would create a left-hand page for each generation that tells the story, perhaps has a lineal tree that shows which generation the two pages focus on. Then the right-hand side would have photos and documents that support the left-hand story. You could end up with a 24-page project and then you'll need to create a cover page. I hope this helps. I'm just a fan of smaller projects because a) I will get the project done b) My children will enjoy the books in small chunks c) My scrapbooks entice family members, who want to learn more and see more documents, to read the autobiographical style books that focus on one individual or a couple with all of their documentation, photos (or at least the best to tell their story), and then written text. Does help? I don't it's not "Use this template", but again, it depends on your answer to the questions - who are you making your scrapbooks for and how much content do you have.

There are so many ways to present family trees in scrapbook layouts. I lean toward simplicity and I'm glad you appreciated them. For the names, check out this blog post about the fan chart to read them. blog.familyhistoryfanatics.com/2012/12/heritage-scrapbooking-including-family-tree-fan-charts.html

@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thank you for the link.

I used Photoshop Elements years ago to make the templates. There are other scrapbook tutorials that can demonstrate how to create these today.

Thanks for the feedback. This is one of my earliest attempts. Sean Cannel of @ThinkMedia says, "to start with what you've got and improve as you go." This was me starting.

You will have plenty of information to add to a scrapbook