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Most of us have beat up cardboard boxes or plastic bins filled with photos from the years of our lives. The most organized among us have managed to sort the boxes into various years or decades, and there is some semblance of order to these memories. Mixed in with the photos may be ticket stubs, greeting cards, and various trinkets that we want to remember but we are not quite shore how to organize. Imagine your children having to wade through it once you are gone. They would spend days sorting through the boxes trying to order the material, piecing together a life they want to understand, but just cannot get a grip on when it is stored in a box. Chances are there are photos of people they will not recognize, curious pictures of events they do not recall, and questions about why certain items were saved and others were not. Maybe you stored graduation cards but not birthday or anniversary greetings. Maybe there are ticket stubs from concerts, but you did not save a wedding program. Your kids and grandkids will understand why you held on to certain things. A scrapbook helps them understand once you can no longer explain. Compiling one now can be a lot of fun and it organizes your memories before it is too late.

You may want to ask your children or grandchildren for assistance. By creating a scrapbook, they can remember the event in years to come. Maybe last Christmas was their favorite so far. She can tell you the story, you can write them down in a scrapbook besides the family Christmas photos, and she can enjoy the experience as told in her own words.

You can also document the time before you had children and grandchildren. Start with your earliest photos and each person. You can include stories surrounding everyone, or include a message directly from them if they are still in your life. Future generations will appreciate the effort you made to inform them and share their heritage with them. There may be forgotten stories now, or these stories may not capture the interest of surly teenage grandchildren. However, a few decades fromnow they will love to learn about your past and their heritage. You can create a scrapbook for each member of the family so they can share them and piece together their common history, or you can create all-encompassing books with copied photos. Remember to include tickets, brochures or other items in addition to photos in the book. Different items such as scraps of paper, swatches of fabric, important documents and family recipes balance the photos in the book and add to the story. Your relatives will truly appreciate your effort in documenting the family history.

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