I have two very old albums that are just wonderful to look at. One is from my grandfather's family, the Berglunds. The other is from my grandmother's mother's family, the Odettes. When the Odette album was made there was no journaling. None! Not a word! Occasionally a picture will fall out and a name is revealed. Hooray, a clue! The creator of the Berglund album was kind enough to tell us sometimes where the pictures were taken and the date, like this one September 1916. Here we are almost a hundred years later wondering who is in each picture! But I do love how people would pose for pictures back then. Everyone was really good at it! Sadly, the albums may be dismantled in an attempt to discover who we are looking at. Maybe they will go back together, perhaps they will become something else.
Why do I bring this up? Because in 100 years someone is going to be looking at the scrapbooks we make and they are going to care to know who they are looking at. When you think of journaling in a scrapbook, a true journalistic approach may be the best. Remembering the 5 W's ... Who, What, When, Where and Why ... the very most important would be Who! The other four W's are fun to know but WHO is very important.
This is not so easy as it seems! We make our pages and are captured in the moment. We know who is in that picture but do we remember to include it in our journaling? All too often we tend to think in the present. Remember to take care of the future and make certain your album tells as much of the story as you want to be remembered! Some day your great great grandchildren will be reading about it.
Having plowed through hundreds of pictures and identifying many .... that is a Scrap From My Heart!
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