Week 5: Parents
by Victorian Rose on 19 Oct 2010 08:44
Hello, Ladies!
How are those Life Books coming? I'm enjoying your layouts and getting to know you (and your subjects). Your journaling is great and you are preserving memories for future generations that will be priceless! Great job!
This week we are going to focus on our subject's parents. How could we possibly tell a person's life story without telling where they came from?
One cannot know his destination if he does not know where he is coming from. Nor can one know who he is without knowing his past. -- unknown
If you are doing yourself (or your children) then you will have no trouble coming up with information about your subject's parents.
However, what do you do if your subject is the end line of your chart and you don't know who their parents are? Those end line ancestors are entirely frustrating and I often feel like a dog chasing its tail when researching them! So many documents were lost in courthouse fires or floods and where do you go when your regular methods of discovery don't work? If I were doing a life book of an endline ancestor, I would put all the details I had, along with my theories and maybe at some point, someone else down the line will be lucky and use your information to find the answers.
But, let's assume you do have photos of your subject's parents and know the details about them. What will we put on these pages? Remember that this Life Book will contain all the information about your subject that you want future generations to know. Unless you are also making a Life Book for your subject's parents, try to put as much information as you have about them. You may need to do multiple pages for different chapters in your book to get your stories in print.
You've already told the details of your subject's birth on your birth pages, and your childhood pages may or may not have contained details about your subject's parents. The parent pages are the places to focus on who the parents were and may include information such as:
Their names and dates of birth/death
How they met/married
Where they grew up
Jobs they had
Specific memories of them
Their later years/death (if they are deceased)
We will be doing pages later on “Family Life”, so we will have opportunity to put more details about the subject's family, vacations, pets, etc., so now we will focus primarily on Mom and Dad.
There are situations where one of the parents was not part of your subject's life due to Mother dying in childbirth or Father dying young or abandoning the family. While those memories are painful, I feel that it is important to document the facts for posterity. Did Grandma and Grandpa raise your subject? Definitely include those details, but also explain why. I'm sure we all know the frustration of finding information and asking “Why did that happen?” Don't make your descendants have to ask, “Why?”
Here are the pages Theresa (Forget Me Not) made that includes Pictures and Details of her subjects' Parents. This is an excellent example. She chose to make a separate page for each parent and give details of each...
And here are the pages I made for my Dad's book about his parents. These pages use my Quick Page Deluxe sets, For the Ladies and For the Men.
Now, as for recommendations for kits in the Heritage Scrap Shoppe, I think these pages that will fill the gallery this week will be as varied as your subject's parents. There is not one specific kit that says “Parents”.
You may choose a kit that complements the time frame you remember most, or you may have special memories about a certain flower or hobby – maybe Mom loved Forget Me Nots or Sewing. Maybe Dad worked on the Railroad. I'm sure you'll be able to find just the right kit to scrap your pages. If not, let us know and we'll make one for you!
I did a search in the store for Mom and Dad and several options came up, so this week, just have fun and enjoy scrapping your pages.
I have done a Parents Word Art set as well as a Mother Word Art Set and Father Word Art Set. You can find them in the Heritage Scrap Store.
Please post your completed layouts in the Week #5 - Parents Gallery, and try to come back and post a link here so we can all go and leave you some love.
So that's it. Have fun and I'm looking forward to meeting Mom and Dad this week!
Life Book (TM) Content Copyright 2009-2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs
How are those Life Books coming? I'm enjoying your layouts and getting to know you (and your subjects). Your journaling is great and you are preserving memories for future generations that will be priceless! Great job!
This week we are going to focus on our subject's parents. How could we possibly tell a person's life story without telling where they came from?
One cannot know his destination if he does not know where he is coming from. Nor can one know who he is without knowing his past. -- unknown
If you are doing yourself (or your children) then you will have no trouble coming up with information about your subject's parents.
However, what do you do if your subject is the end line of your chart and you don't know who their parents are? Those end line ancestors are entirely frustrating and I often feel like a dog chasing its tail when researching them! So many documents were lost in courthouse fires or floods and where do you go when your regular methods of discovery don't work? If I were doing a life book of an endline ancestor, I would put all the details I had, along with my theories and maybe at some point, someone else down the line will be lucky and use your information to find the answers.
But, let's assume you do have photos of your subject's parents and know the details about them. What will we put on these pages? Remember that this Life Book will contain all the information about your subject that you want future generations to know. Unless you are also making a Life Book for your subject's parents, try to put as much information as you have about them. You may need to do multiple pages for different chapters in your book to get your stories in print.
You've already told the details of your subject's birth on your birth pages, and your childhood pages may or may not have contained details about your subject's parents. The parent pages are the places to focus on who the parents were and may include information such as:
Their names and dates of birth/death
How they met/married
Where they grew up
Jobs they had
Specific memories of them
Their later years/death (if they are deceased)
We will be doing pages later on “Family Life”, so we will have opportunity to put more details about the subject's family, vacations, pets, etc., so now we will focus primarily on Mom and Dad.
There are situations where one of the parents was not part of your subject's life due to Mother dying in childbirth or Father dying young or abandoning the family. While those memories are painful, I feel that it is important to document the facts for posterity. Did Grandma and Grandpa raise your subject? Definitely include those details, but also explain why. I'm sure we all know the frustration of finding information and asking “Why did that happen?” Don't make your descendants have to ask, “Why?”
Here are the pages Theresa (Forget Me Not) made that includes Pictures and Details of her subjects' Parents. This is an excellent example. She chose to make a separate page for each parent and give details of each...
And here are the pages I made for my Dad's book about his parents. These pages use my Quick Page Deluxe sets, For the Ladies and For the Men.
Now, as for recommendations for kits in the Heritage Scrap Shoppe, I think these pages that will fill the gallery this week will be as varied as your subject's parents. There is not one specific kit that says “Parents”.
You may choose a kit that complements the time frame you remember most, or you may have special memories about a certain flower or hobby – maybe Mom loved Forget Me Nots or Sewing. Maybe Dad worked on the Railroad. I'm sure you'll be able to find just the right kit to scrap your pages. If not, let us know and we'll make one for you!
I did a search in the store for Mom and Dad and several options came up, so this week, just have fun and enjoy scrapping your pages.
I have done a Parents Word Art set as well as a Mother Word Art Set and Father Word Art Set. You can find them in the Heritage Scrap Store.
Please post your completed layouts in the Week #5 - Parents Gallery, and try to come back and post a link here so we can all go and leave you some love.
So that's it. Have fun and I'm looking forward to meeting Mom and Dad this week!
Life Book (TM) Content Copyright 2009-2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs
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