Family History Scrapping

Digital Designs for Scrapping Your Family’s Story

Heritage Helpers “Edgar Hart Series” Heritage Base Kit and Expansion Packs

I have created this page by request of people who have seen me use my original designs on my own family history pages at Ancestry and here on my own site, and wished to have a way to purchase them.  It’s finally arrived! The long awaited first series designed especially for Family Historians and Genealogists.

Genealogists have long been looking for an attractive way to print and display all the different kinds of data they accumulate when doing family history research, from census data to cemetery photographs. Here, at long last, is a kit series designed especially for this purpose. Each page was specifically designed for a particular data record, giving you an easy and attractive way to display your family archival material.

I have named this series after my maternal grandfather, “Edgar Hart”. All of the sample images you will see throughout this series depict my actual family data, so you can really see how it looks with real world data.

You can use the files in these kits in two ways:

1. On Ancestry.com, through their “Print Posters and Books” Section. If you have used this tool, you know that you can upload your own images to use. What a lot of people don’t realize is that you can upload more than just your photos to put on the pages. You can include images to be backgrounds, embellishments, tags etc.

Using this tool does not require you to have any graphics program, such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, nor to know how to use one.

If you have never used this tool, you should give it a try. it’s free to use, you can print your own pages if you want. Another misconception is that it’s only for having Ancestry print a bound book for you. While you can do this at a very reasonable price, you can also print the pages on your own computer.

2. Within a graphics program, such as Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, to make your own printable scrapbook and genealogy pages to print out (Digital Scrapbooking.)

Over the course of time, I will be adding to the existing kits and will be focusing even more on things that will give you additional flexibility when using Ancestry’s Printing feature.

• Edgar Hart Base Kit

  Edgar Hart Base Kit

  The base kit contains 2 background papers, and some basic tags and elements. It is meant to be used as additional material for any or all of the other themed kits.
  If you know how to work with graphics in programs such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or others, then you can use [...]

  Order Base Kit

  Edgar Hart Base Kit @ $2.00
• Edgar Hart Charts Kit

  Edgar Hart Family Charts Kit

  The family charts kit includes two versions each of a Family Group Sheet, Family Tree Sheet, Pictorial Pedigree Sheet, and an Individual Data Sheet. One set is on the light background, and the second set is on the dark background with light overlays for text.
  NOTE: These files will probably not work [...]

  Order Charts

  Edgar Hart Genealogy @ $5.00
• Edgar Hart Census Kit

  Edgar Hart Census Kit

  The Census Pack includes six variations of census record backgrounds, to accommodate different shapes of census records, premade dates from 1620 to 2010, plus associated word and title art.
  IMPORTANT NOTE:
  This product must be purchased in two parts in order to get the whole kit. This is done so that the total files [...]