Dear Barbara & group: I have started a family heritage album myself, and it is addicting! I knew nothing about scrapbooking when I started, so I took a couple of Scrapbooking 101 classes to get some ideas and I've been hooked ever since. I did my first page on Phoebe. My problem is I have so many pictures, and so many different branches of our family that I do not know how to organize the album. I have been trying to find a picture of the ship Phoebe and her family came to America in, the ship's name was the "Olive Branch", and they came to America in 1842. I should try a Google search, maybe I can come up with a picture of the ship. That's a good idea about including an ancestral chart with the album. That way you have faces and names. I did one page and I drew a tree with lots of branches, then I printed small copies of photos of my ancestors, and put their names & dob & dod. Then I used rubber stamps that looked like leaves and used different colors, and it turned out well. It wasn't my original idea, but I got it from a book, and I used that page for the first page of my album. That should be interesting on how you will do your grandfather's page, since you said he was an undertaker! I think it's great that we're sharing so many ideas on preserving our history, I think that gives each other the inspiration to keep going. You guys have already given me a bunch of great ideas, I can't wait to get going! Barbara, sometimes we just need to tell someone what we're gonna do just to get fired up, there's nothing wrong with that, and you're welcome, anytime! Kim