Found scrapbook and looking for suggestions for what to do with it.

[seaglass]

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?

[bobbieinok]

1. Give to genealogical or historical society of county where she lived and died. Or to county---

County of most mention of family.

Send message of donation to genealogical and historical societies most frequently mentioned in scrapbook

There's probably a lot of info in scrapbook of interest to families other than main subject family

Also notify or ask for advice from genealogical and historical societies in states where most of newspaper stories took place

[seaglass]

2. Good ideas, thanks! n/t

[Frustratedlady]

3. Please don't destroy it. I would fill out the information on Ancestry or some other site...

and share the information. You wouldn't believe how important just one link can be.

My husband's family had been looking for the daughter of the original family that came over from Germany. We had information on everyone else, but could not find her. One night, out of the blue, I entered the g-g-grandfather's name in a search engine and the place where he was born. Up popped his daughter's name and a brief history of what happened to her...from the Middle East, no less. She had married and had 3 children, but then disappeared. It turned out she and her mother had both died of some horrible flu or condition. Her husband took the children to Indiana or Ohio, can't remember, and the husband, as well as the 3 children never married, so the trail was lost.

There is SO much information in an obit and it sometimes takes one bit of info to connect to another tree. I am presently entering 4 sides of our family (will get serious after the holidays) and hope to finish before I die. It is fascinating.

[OhNo-Really]

4. I love this free genealogy web site

https://wc.rootsweb.com/search

Sadly, in our brave new monopoly world, Ancestry.com bought it;

However, if you use the search engine at top of screen search names it’s free & you might find some of your aunts direct deceased relatives.

So you can take pics of album & add to any family tree she belongs to.

Learn about gedcom files that make marrying new info to existing family trees.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-create-a-gedcom-file-1421892

Good luck. And enjoy. Their is a special vibe to enjoy while doing genealogy

[LakeArenal]

5. I auctioned off a lot of stuff recently...

Someone bought the slides of my 1970 wedding. People love history. Someone will want it.

[marble falls]

6. The Smithsonian collects these things, including journals and diaries.

[csziggy]

7. If nothing else try Dead Fred

https://www.deadfred.com/index.php

They collect old photos and try to connect them to family members. Maybe they would be interested in the scrapbook?

[sybylla]

8. I had a similar event a couple of years ago.

The scrapbook creator didn't have any children of her own, but she had put in loads of photos of aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. I was able to find a cousin on Ancestry who was ecstatic to learn of it and paid for me to ship it to him.

I like the idea of starting a family page on Ancestry and uploading photos. That way, anyone related could find them online. I hope someone has reached out to you with interest in being a caretaker for the album since your first post.