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ANCESTRY BUCKET BAG
TIME FOR A FAMILY YEARBOOK
12X12 YEARBOOK
ONE OF MANY DESIGNS YOU CAN CREATE FOR YOUR FAMILY, OR START FROM SCRATCH. HERITAGE MAKERS OFFERS LOTS OF OPTIONS FOR YOU.
If you are not a member of Club HM, you can still make lots of beautiful items. You just get better savings on Club!!! 25-34% off on publishing!!
You can sign up for a free account to get started today. Check out my website to see what is available.
If you just want to make a poster, we have those too. Anything you need to commemorate your year.
PUBLISHING IDEAS
IF YOU ARE LIKE ME, YOU TOOK A LOT OF PHOTOS THIS YEAR…..
What do you do with them? Leave them on the computer and just look at them? Then when you want to find one, what do you do with it. Do you print it out to frame? I have a better idea…what don’t you use all those beautiful photos in a project everyone can enjoy, touch and appreciate? Heritage Makers offers you the solution to create wonderful things to share. Why not ” Pledge to Publish ” throughout the year? Sign up for a free studio account so you can get started. I am looking for some more customers, sign up today, you will love it!!
Great solutions to your photo issues. I can truly say, this Christmas was the most rewarding, because everyone got something they will remember!!!
Here are some ideas for projects to create throughout the year.
JAN- annual albums, calendars and Valentine cards
FEB-story books and winter sports
MAR-Spring and faith-based projects, spring break trips
APR-Mother’s Day, weddings and graduation
MAY- Father’s Day, teacher/classmate gifts
JUN-patriotic tributes and recipes
JUL-summer vacations and summer sports
AUG-back to school, grandparents day
SEP-family reunion, fall fun
OCT-Halloween, Thanksgiving and holiday gifts
NOV-holiday gifts and greetings
DEC- New Years and calendars
HERE ARE SOME PROJECTS I HAVE MADE THESE LAST FEW MONTHS.
Memorial for friend’s cat
Memorial for Aunt ANn
vacation 12×12 scrap page
Mom with her book
Sister Chris with her framed 12×12 scrap pages
Family photo tree
Here are some other ways to use Club HM as well.
BOY SCOUT ADVENTURES
MARCHING BAND
TEACHERS GIFTS OR CLASS PHOTOS
CHEERLEADERS
COOKBOOKS FOR DAUGHTER OR NEW DAUGHTER IN LAW
BUSINESS FLYERS
FAMILY HISTORY/FAMILY TREE
NEW BABY
WEDDING ALBUM
GROWING UP FOR SISTER OR BROTHER
MOM AND DAD
INVITATIONS
GREETING CARDS
BUSINESS CARDS
CHILD CHORE CHART
FAMILY CHRISTMAS STORY
WALL POSTERS
FAMILY BELIEFS
SUMMER CAMP
FAMILY REUNIONS
TEACHER SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
STUDY FLASHCARDS
MEMORIAL FOR PETS
FAMILY PHOTOS TO SHARE
I HAVE POSTED MY 18X24 WALL PRINT THAT YOU CAN PUT YOUR OWN FAMILY PHOTOS IN, AND IT IS SO EASY. YOU CAN PERSONALIZE THIS YOURSELF!
ALSO, WITH THE POINTS AND PREMIER SPECIAL, YOU CAN GIVE THE GIFT OF HERITAGE MAKERS. IF YOU SIGN UP FOR A FREE ACCOUNT ON MY WEBSITE, I WILL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THIS TEMPLATE.
Check out my website at Heritage Makers or email me at makeityourown@charter.net to give this wonderful gift!
For as little ad $25.00 they can get 25 publishing points with a month of free premier artwork. That is 90,000 pieces of art and 10,000 templates, for their projects!!
MY FATHER’S LIFE A SCRAPBOOK HISTORY
Digital scrapbooking is really the way of the future. No more cutting, pasting, sticking slicing and choosing the right paper. This is all digital, and you can MAKE IT YOUR OWN. I have been working on a scrapbook for my dad the last couple of months. He is having memory issues, and I wanted to make something he could look at and maybe recount some good times throughout his life. I did a chronological story and added photos to go along with them. Different phases from childhood to marriage, military and good friends.
I have begun working as an Independent Publishing Consultant with Heritage Makers. You can make so many wonderful projects. Here are two pics of his album and a link to look a the rest of it. I hope he likes it.
If you are interested in making a similar project, or a story book such as I made my mom, please contact me. I can show you how with Heritage Makers. It is an easy system, no software to download. You simply go to their website, upload photos, store them in albums and ” Drag and Drop” them into a project. Add some embellishments and your own words, and that is it!!
MY FAMILY TREE
I posted the template of the Family Tree on here the other day. Many people commented on the fact I posted it on Ancestry.com as well. A lot of likes. Was anyone interested in finding the HOW TO on it? On my site, it is template 93774 and 93775. It is an 8×20 canvas, but, you can easily make it a 11×14 poster to share with family.
ON A SEARCH FOR DEATH RECORDS
I was happy to have in my mail on Wednesday, the death certificate for my great-grandfather, James Harvey Pickens. Here is a picture of James Harvey and family, about 1907.They were married in Cooke Texas 1900.
JAMES, HARVEY H , VIOLA RUTH AND ALICE LINDELL PICKENS
He was listed as divorced. His wife in Tampa Florida, was listed a s a widow. I do know he left the family somewhere between 1920 and 1930. Wife Alice, my grandfather Harvey H and siblings were in Tampa in 1930. We never knew what happened to James Harvey, except that he is buried with his parents Harvey H and Sarah F Smith Pickens in Hillside cemetery, Purcell Oklahoma. It was reassuring to see I had the right SMith family in the 1860′s in Oglethorpe county Georgia. James’ death certificate verified this.
James Harvey Pickens death certificate
The state of Oklahoma was unable to find the certificates for parents of James Harvey, but, I provided all the information I had , and resent it in hopes of success. James Harvey sister was Tommie Pickens who married undertaker B.H. Rackley. SOmeone of that family may know something too. I have also posted it to the Pickens and McClain county boards on Ancestry. I hope to put this family back together soon.
© FANNIESYOURAUNT
DAVID JONES….BLIND MINISTER
I had always heard that my mom’s great-grandfather was a minister, and now , I have a photo of him and some colleagues. My mom’s cousin Mary was kind enough to go through some photos and found this one.
David Jones is on the far right, seated with the cane. The other fellows appear to have on clerical collars. I am guessing this is some sort of clerical meeting. It looks like a tent in the background. In all the census records I have found on David Jones, it lists him as blind. He was born in 1849 to William Jones and Mary Polly Boylan. He was one of eight children, three brothers and four sisters. He names my great-grandmother after a sibling, Letitia. He married Mary Catherine Steadman in about 1876 and were in the 1880 census living with David’s parents in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. In the 1860 census, the two families did not live a far distance from each other. He was still not a minister in 1870, so I assume it was soon after he became ordained. I heard he was a traveling minister. In the 1870 census, the Jones family lived near Mary Catherine Steadman’s grandparents, the Boylans. Perhaps they met there, at a church social! They later moved to Venango county and then to Allegheny county. David E. Jones died in 1923 in the Mayfair community of Allegheny county. I have not found the death record or burial. I have also no record of his wife, or children except for my great-grandmother Ethel Letisia Jones. But, I have no idea where she obtained the information.
HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY
I am not fortunate enough to still have my grandparents, but, as a tribute to both sets, here are photos of them.
Ruben and Blanche Ewing Dean, about 1940
Ruben and Blanche lived in Franklin Pennsylvania, where my mother Louise was born.When I was about 13, my other and I started visiting over the summer. Some of the best memories were going to their house on Myrtle St. Baking with her, and walking around the town.
Harvey and Mamie McCall Pickens, about 1935
Harvey and Mamie first lived in Tampa, where I was born, and my father Hershel. We lived close to them, then we later moved to Bradenton, they soon followed. My memories are always of the beautiful lawn they had, cooking with Nana , in the vegetable garden with Papa picking the things he grew.Even later, even as I was a teen, visiting them was a joy. Most young people can not see the benefit of spending time with grandparents, I certainly did.
