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[Paul E]

Hi Denn

Fantastic visualisations - start taking commissions!

cheers


Paul

[glenidol]

Some timeback there was discussion about Scrapbooking ----- someone must have been listening because  iRemember - Digital Scrapbooking for Mac appeared around June 2005.

http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=SOiRemember

Review -
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/28/iremember/index.phpR

[northern_rose]

I have a new neice (1month a day old) and plan to give her a framed family tree with photos as part of her christening present.

Additionally, I plan to give her and anyone else in the family who is interested a CD with all the info on about the family, including photos and certificates.

In a very sad way I am glad no body did this for me as I love doing the research!!!

[Tuganneth]

Hi

Sometimes when I am engrossed in the research of a particular line I forget what was happening at the time, Then I look at the date and think "My God they were alive during the Napoleonic wars"  or whatever.

Could not agree more with Amy K &c about relating 'world/national' historical events or epochs and placing family members in context

I 've asked myself questions along those lines

Thanks

[choco2]

Hi,

I am in the process of doing a book for my brother and sister to give them with their Christmas presants.
I have kept It simple and have done it in five sections.
IE grandparents . Grand dads side, Nan's side. on both mum and dads side.
I have added photo's and certificates etc.
I have started with the oldest grandparents and moved forward as the years progressed up to the presant day. I have included photo's of my siblings at school etc up to photo's of their own children now..

The old part of the books are the same with our ancestors and then I have continued with pictures relevant to each of them. So their books differ as they have there own family's now

I have left a section at the back for them to continue adding presant day events which will be family history to our great grand children. also they can add info on their relevant spouses if they want to.

Hopefully someone will keep it going.

The mix of old and new photo's make it interesting for the younger members of the family to relate back to the old sepia photo's for the 1800s.

Sorry if I have waffled on just wanted to give you some ideas

[dennford]

Sorry if I have waffled on just wanted to give you some ideas

No, that's not waffling at all - it gives us all more ideas and that's exactly what this thread is about.

                                                 Denn

[hepburn]

That is wonderful...Truly

[MapMyAncestors]

An idea for presenting my family tree that I'm trying is to use <a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a>.

I've put together a file for my Skinner tree which shows the kind of thing I mean.  If you have a copy of Google Earth you can view it here -

<a href="http://www.familytreeassistant.com/SkinnerTree20080625.kmz">My Tree on Google Earth</a>

Don't forget to expand the time span slider in the top right corner of the Google Earth screen (click on the right hand side of the slider and drag to the right).

The above tree was produced from a GEDCOM export using the <a href="http://www.familytreeassistant.com/">Map My Ancestors</a> program.

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on whether being able to visualise the your family on Google Earth is something of interest to people?

Many thanks

Tim

[Berlin-Bob]

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on whether being able to visualise the your family on Google Earth is something of interest to people?

There is a general discussion about this here:

Topic: Mapping the travels of our ancestors
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,146629.0.html

Bob