What is a Life Book, you ask?
"This is Your Life" was a TV Series that aired between 1952 and 1961. Ralph Edwards was the host. Each week, an unsuspecting celebrity would be lured by some ruse to a location near the studio. He would then be surprised with the news that he was to be the featured guest. Next he was escorted into the studio, and one by one people significant in the guest's life would be brought out to offer anecdotes. At the end of the show family members and friends would gather about the guest who would then be presented with some gifts. These usually included jewelry, a scrapbook of memories, and a home 16 mm projector and camera. (Plot summary taken from IMDb.)Doing a "Life Book" is like putting that show onto paper... we're going to be making the Scrapbook of Memories without the big Hollywood production (or budget!)
Life Book classes at Heritage Scrap will help you to take a person's life story and break it down into bite sized pieces, so to speak. We will scrap one topic each week - things like birth, childhood, school days, etc. We'll help you organize your information so that scrapping a loved one's life story is "do-able".
When starting the book, we have to approach it a bit differently than we normally do heritage scrapping. Journaling is usually the last thing I put on the page. With a Life Book, it is important to do all the journaling first.
You start by interviewing the subject (if they are still alive) or family members or someone who knows their life story. You can just let them tell you their story, or you can spur them on with questions like "When and where were you born?" "How many brothers and sisters did you have?" "What were your parents' names?" "What was your childhood like?" "What did your Dad do for a living?", etc. (It may be helpful to print out the Life Book III Schedule which includes the list of topics to guide you in asking your questions.)
At the Life Book Chats (each Monday at 9 pm ET) we will discuss the topic for the week and our seasoned genealogists will give tips for finding information about the topic and your subject, experienced digi scrappers can help answer questions about scrapping techniques, there will be freebies and challenges, and a lot of fun just chatting about life and stuff.
Please come join us Monday night as we embark on another fun and satisfying year of Life Book!
I will be posting each week's directions here on my blog and in the forum at Heritage Scrap. Please see the Life Book III forum for more information.
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