HELLO

Hello everyone!  I hope you are enjoying the same beautiful spring weather that we are currently experiencing here in the holler.  It is a shame that I have not gotten up off my butt to go out and enjoy the sunshine but I have had my windows opened the past few days to let in that fresh air!  I have been so busy trying to get the first two Ancestral Record photo books finished that i have literally been scrappin' day and night.  I have the first book finished, and almost finished with book two.  I hope you take the time to look at the previews  as I post them!

I have a page created just for the An Ancestral Record Book One <-----Click this link.
As I find the time, I hope to create a similar stand alone page here on my blog just for the photo books I am offering for purchase to my family and friends.

In the meantime, I don't want you to think I have forgotten about you, so I changed one of my heritage pages into a quick page just for you guys!  I combined two of Kimberly Stewart's fantastic kits from HER SBE STORE:  When I Think of You  and  Little Sock Monkey

 

I hope you enjoy it, and I will visit with you again soon!
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SBE-UBI-VINTAGE FLEA MARKET

Scrapbook-Elements presents The SBE U Build It! Vintage Flea Market Collection
All Vintage Flea Market UBI items are priced @ $1 or $2

It's time for another U Build It! Event at SBE.

The Vintage Flea Market collection features a timeless color palette perfect for those heritage layouts, feminine layouts or any layouts needing a touch of the past.

There are over 70 coordinated products from 15 designers. 
You are sure to find a great selection of items to use for your scrapping pleasure.

The March 2011 UBI will be available beginning Friday, March 4th.
The prices will range from $1-$2 for a limited time only.

All items in the U Build It! Category are priced either $1 or $2.
Available at these prices for a limited time only

http://store.scrapbook-elements.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=274

As I am currently working almost non-stop on my heritage pages at this time, I am sure you will be seeing lots from me in the galleries using this fabulous collection.  I made these two pages this morning. The journaling came from a blog I found from a "hometown boy" Andrew Clark Porter-his words convey just exactly what I have been trying to get down on paper for months about my home town as I have been working on my ancestry books.  So I combined his words with mine to create a two page spread. To me, they paint a portrait of the many places and faces I have grown to love here at home.

While you are here, don't forget to check out the Ancestral Record page (link at top of page).  Book One is finished and I can get you a copy of this photo book at a low price, for a limited time only! Hugz!

Genealogy Relationship Chart Freebie

Last night I received a phone call to order the ancestral record photo book I have been working on...Yippee! While we were talking, I was asked about how to figure out the relationships, and what exactly does it mean to be the 8th cousin 3 times removed.  I turned it over to my hubby to explain to her because I get confused explaining that one, lol!

Fortunately for me, my PAF software has a relationship calculator!  Speaking of which, with your purchase of An Ancestral Record-Book One, I will include with your order, at no extra charge, a disc with a copy of my Personal Ancestral File.  This is my personal genealogical data base which currently has information on over 95,000 individuals!  Now some of these folks, to date, I have not actually been able to link directly, yet, but all are persons of interest who possibly are connected to me in some way and most of them actually are descendants of Kiper, Mudd, Stewart and Phelps families.  Many have photos attached as well.
 To use this database, you will have to download a copy of the Personal Ancestral File from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, but it is a free software.  For more information on this family tree software, and to download your copy go here  LDS Personal Ancestral File.

 Now back to the question at hand, how to figure out the genealogical relationships...
Last night I made a couple of pages to include in the An Ancestral Record-Book One with the famous outlaw, Jesse James, using Kate McClellan's The Civil War Kit from Heritage Scraps, which by the way, you lovers of genealogy must add to your digi-scrapping stash! Yep, he is kinfolk!  Jesse and Hurshel Phelps (my hubby's Grandfather) were 8th cousins.  Now that relationship is pretty easy to understand but Jesse is also 8th cousin 3 times removed to both myself and to my ex-husband.  Cousins, upteen times removed can be a little confusing so I have made a little freebie for you today that may help you figure that out:, a Genealogy Relationship Chart.  Link to download the chart will be an end of post.
 

 Now quite honestly, I could never figure all this out without the relationship calculator of my genealogy software  but our (Jesse James and myself) common ancestor is Matthew Arundell Howard & Annie Hall, Jesse's 8th Great Grandfather.  I am related to him through my Mother, the Stewart side of the family, which is also the way I am genealogically related to my husband, Gary Phelps, and to my ex-husband, Larry Mudd.
Yes sir-eee!  Just one big happy family we are!  lol

Anyhoooo....hope you can find the Genealogy Relationship Chart useful.  To make it, I used the chart I found online and Kimberly Stewart's When I Think of You kit from Scrapbook-Elements.  You can check out all of beautiful collection by Kimmi in the SBE Store Here, and while there browse through the rest of Kimmi's SBE store, you will love it!  Enjoy and Happy Scrappin!

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