Your family tree is unique to yourself and your family. Joining it together with one of the most popular crafting hobbies going seems to be all the rage and we took a bit of time to explore it. What we found was that family tree scrapbooking was fun and interesting and that it made an incredible gift to give parents or grandparents.

Your family tree has some branches that everyone is proud of. Your own parents, or grandparents are going to be among those people. Why not document their lives for them, and give them a unique book to pass along. What’s the best way to tell a story? in photos and documents of course.

Family tree scrapbooking lets you get the story told, and do it in a unique way. Taking a blank scrapbook and selecting some interesting textures and colors that are favorites of your subject is a great way to start.. If they have interests such as quilting, golfing or other things, integrate those into the scrapbook.

Begin with documents. If, for instance you’re doing a photo scrapbook of your father, who is an avid golfer, find as many photos as you can of his life, from start to present day, and put them into a book with pages whicha re decorated with a golfing theme.

Gathering together the images, the documents and other things you want to add will take a bit of time, but speaking with relatives who may have photos they will let you use, or your mother or grandmother, who may have baptismal certificates, marriage licenses and those little handwriting awards he got in third grade will make your project so much more personal and interesting for him and for you both.

Making your family tree scrapbook is going to give you new insight into who your dad, or your grandfather really is, and give them a real thrill that you took the tinme to explore their life up until now. What a great way to get to know a parent as a person, to revisit their childhood and understand more about them.

Family tree scrapbooking tends to make quite an impression on the person you make the scrapbook for, as well as on you. Take the time to put together a scrapbook for someone you know. Make sure that you use only copies of the documents rather than the real thing, in order to keep them secure.