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Ancestry/Genealogy

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seaglass

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Mon Dec 16, 2019, 02:04 PM Dec 2019

Found scrapbook and looking for suggestions for what to do with it. [View all]

My husband's aunt was friends with this woman - Phyllis born 1906 who has died as has my husband's aunt. Phyllis was an only child and never married or had children.

I found her scrapbook which would be a genealogist's dream. Newspaper clippings, obits and family pictures. The family was musical so had a lot of news stories.

I found a couple people on Ancestry that have family trees that she is included in but they all have 30k-60k family members. I emailed one of them to see if they had contact with any descendants of Phyllis' family but no such luck.

I don't want this scrapbook but I hate to toss it. The only idea I could come up with would be to create a mini family tree in Ancestry and scan in at least some of the info from the scrapbook.

Any other ideas about preserving but not keeping this scrapbook?

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