Ok, I’m having withdrawal. After five solid days of hanging out on GenealogyWise.com, the new social networking site for genealogists, it has been down this morning for at kleast four hours. At least I HOPE it’s down, because I had finally found a social networking home. I never could get into facebook,  nd I use twitter to keep up on politics and current events. But GenealogyWise was fast becoming my home. I had made many groups, and was especially loving my “Scrap Your family History” group, one very close to my heart as you can imagine.

As of when the site went down I had about 82 members in the group, and it has really lit a fire under me to get out the ole PSP program and dust it off, because these people are chomping at the bit to learn. Now it’s down and I’m totally at loose ends. Hopefully it’s just a technical problem, what with so many hundreds flocking to it every day. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Example Page – Family Heirlooms

These are some examples of personal pages I have Scrapped using my Edgar Hart Heritage Helpers Series. If you like these pages and would like to purchase one or more of the kits, you will find them on my main web site at GenScraps.com.

This teapot is a part of a set that my father got for my hope chest when I was about 16. It was scrapped using a ready-made page from my Photographs Expansion Pack. You can see it here.

Family History Scrapping

Digital Designs for Scrapping Your Family’s Story

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. This kit is named in honor of my grandfather, Edgar Hart.

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 even more flexibility when using Ancestry’s Printing feature.

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	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.	$2.00
	The family charts kit includes two versions each of a Family Group Sheet, Family Tree Sheet, Pictorial Pedigree Sheet, and an Individual Data Sheet. NOTE: These files will probably not work with Ancestry’s automated information system. I’m working on new versions for that. To print these charts through Ancestry, you will need to complete them first in a graphics program, and upload the completed files.	$5.00
	The Census Pack includes several variations of census record backgrounds, premade dates from 1620 to 2010, plus associated word and title art.	$4.00
	The Narratives Pack includes two background pages plus word and title are to help you tell the stories of your family in a way that coordinates with the rest of the package.	$4.00
	The Personal Documents  kit includes specialty pages plus word and title art for things like Diaries, Wills, Letters and Family Bible records.	$5.00
	The Photographs kit includes specialty pages plus word and title art for you to use for Portraits and Photos. It includes title art and word art of family relationships (Mother, Father, Aunt, etc.)	$5.00
	The memories pack includes eight specialty pages plus word and title art to help you document your own personal memories of various family members.	$5.00
Recommended Product <br />	Save $5.00 by buying the bundle, which includes all current packs in this series.	$25.00
	Still to come in this series: Death and Cemetery Records, Immigration, Old Homestead, Heraldry, Military, Public Documents and more. If you have a topic you would like to see included in this series, please let me know.

Welcome to GenScraps

Genealogical and Historical Tidbits and How to Scrap Them

Welcome to GenScraps, your home for both “scraps” of genealogy and family history, and the use of scrapbooks to document your findings. In these pages I combine my passion for digital scrapbook artistry with my passion for exploring my family history. I hope you will find something enjoyable and informative by browsing these pages.

I have created this website for several purposes:

• To share my knowledge regarding genealogical research
• To share interesting discoveries in my own family tree
• To encourage the archiving of family history data via scrapbooks
• To provide resources for genealogical research
• To provide historical context in selected areas, notably those that compliment my own personal researches.
• To offer my services to others who cannot or do not wish to conduct their own research.
• To help me organize my own materials

What’s Here

This web site is a mixture of all the things I am currently doing in my life. You can find out more about me on my Personal About Me page.

If you would like to hire me as either a writer or a genealogist, you can check out my professional About Me page.

You will find my line of Digital Scrapbook kits especially designed for scrapping family history and genealogical information in the Digitals section. I created this line for my own personal use, but due to a number of requests I have made it available for others to use as well.

Lately I have been doing some article writing for inline article archives, on a variety of topics. You will reprints of them, or links to them here as well.

What’s New

In the process of building this site, I have made the change from using Expression Web to using Wordpress. It has been an interesting switch, and things are not completely moved yet. If you find broken links, or links that seem to go to the wrong places, check again in a day or so and they should be fixed. I expect to complete the switchover and start new content in 2 or 3 days.

Genealogy Section

This section has articles written about genealogy, including advice on research, as well as some personal experiences with my own research.

History Section

This section I will be placing information meant to provide historical context to my own personal researches. Since I am gathering this information anyway, I might as well share it here for others to make use of. My current focus is the Pilgrim Era in New England, with particular emphasis on Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Some articles will be written by me. Others will be relevant articles written by others, or reprinted from public domain documents and books.

Digital Scrapbook Section

This section will have articles  about using scrapbooking techniques to display your genealogical data, and also provides a selection of digital scrapbook kits to help you get started doing this.

My Published Articles

I am also a freelance writer and i will place links to my latest articles here.  Some will repeat the content I have here, but others will not. You may be interested in them anyway, and giving me a page click and rating will help me out

All Current Articles

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