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[StacyLee]

Thank you to all the cherries who participated in this month's challenge, your pages are beautiful, thank you for sharing them!  According to random.org the winner of this month's challenge is.....#8, Retiree3! Congrats & I'll be getting your gc to you shortly!

Hi cherries! Thanks again to everyone who participated in July's challenge!  I really enjoyed looking at everyone's layouts and sharing their family homes and stories!  Hope you like what I have in store for you this month, too!

The inspiration for this month's challenge comes from something I came across on Pinterest recently:

I love this quote, it really sums up how important it is that we tell the stories of our family so that they aren't lost.  I am very fortunate to have so many heritage photos. The majority of them are people I never met, that died before I was born, including both of my grandfathers. For August, I want to see a layout that highlights a relative that you never met.  Since this is a heritage challenge, the picture(s) must be over 20 years old.  If your layout is masculine, I will give you a BONUS entry. I haven't finished my sample yet, but I plan to this weekend and will post it then.

Sorry for the delay in posting my sample. I don't typically do two-page layouts, and in this case I really just used similar papers to complement each other in my album, it's not a two-page design.  Photos of my grandfather on the left, and of him with his siblings on the right.  Journaling by my mother.


The rules:
Open to layouts only, paper or digital
Must be new work that features a relative you never met with photo(s) over 20 years old
Bonus entry if your entry is a masculine layout
You can combine with any other challenge that allows
No gallery spot, please link your work here
One entry per person
Deadline is midnight, August 31st
A winner will be chosen using random.org to receive a $5 ACOT gift card from me! 

Participants:
1. Charleneanne
2. Charleneanne bonus
3. meterr70
4. Tammey
5. Tammey bonus
6. blbabe1234
7. blbabe1234 bonus
8. Retiree3
9. sherelm
10. sherelm bonus
11. Sandi0805
12. Sandi0805 bonus
13. Deanna13
14. suemo

 

[Charleneanne]

Love this challenge.  And lucky me, I have tons of old photos of ancestors that died before I was even born.  

[blbabe1234]

This is a fabulous challenge Stacy. I have a membership to Ancestry.com and I have been having a BLAST in unlocking mysteries and opening up doors...so to speak. There are tons of pics that a 3rd cousin has posted that I have never met. Thank you for this awesome challenge

[oceanbreezes423]

I really love the idea of a heritage page, but one, I have no old pictures other than ones I have taken, and they are all people I know. 

[StacyLee]

This is a fabulous challenge Stacy. I have a membership to Ancestry.com and I have been having a BLAST in unlocking mysteries and opening up doors...so to speak. There are tons of pics that a 3rd cousin has posted that I have never met. Thank you for this awesome challenge

I love Ancestry.com, too! I'm lucky that older cousins did a lot of genealogy work, pre-Internet. Ancestry has allowed us to go back even further! Check out newspapers.com, too. I first heard about it watching Who Do You a Think You Are.  A lot of old obituaries were beautifully written, almost mini biographies.  I did a free one week trial, was fun!

[CarrieG]

pretty sure I can get this one done.....I know I have a couple pics of my mom's dad's parents who I never met 

[SherrieLynne]

I have the perfect photo for this month's challenge. My Dad's Dad passed away before I was born. As a matter of fact my dad was just a child when he passed away. I have a photo of my dad with his brothers and sisters with their Dad. I have been wanting to scrap this photo for a long time. Thanks for another great Heritage challenge.

Oh, can I do a relative that I believe I've met, but I have no memory of since I was 2 (I think) when he died?
 

[StacyLee]

I have the perfect photo for this month's challenge. My Dad's Dad passed away before I was born. As a matter of fact my dad was just a child when he passed away. I have a photo of my dad with his brothers and sisters with their Dad. I have been wanting to scrap this photo for a long time. Thanks for another great Heritage challenge.

I'm so glad you're enjoying the Heritage challenges!  I think that photos like that are so special, how fortunate that you have it since your Grandfather passed at a young age. I'm really looking forward to seeing your page!

[StacyLee]

Oh, can I do a relative that I believe I've met, but I have no memory of since I was 2 (I think) when he died?

 

Absolutely!  My prompt for this month is to try to get pictures scrapped of people that we were never able to have a relationship with, but that doesn't mean they aren't important in our lives and to our heritage.  I tend to navigate to pictures with more "familiarity" because I have that personal connection, but I have tons of pictures of relatives that passed long before I came along, or when I was very young, too.   Please join in this month, and I'm looking forward to seeing your work!

[pawprints]

This is a really great challenge!

[Yankeegirl]

Wonderful challenge, and I think I have just the photo for it!  Thanks for the push!

[sherelm]

I have one of my aunt's husband/my uncle that I may have met, but I know I was dragged to his funeral as a little kid.  First dead body I ever saw.  I never knew my aunt, but I don't think I have any pictures of her that I haven't scrapped already, and are in my heritage album.  She was 32 when she died of cancer.    But that's the closest  can come unless I reach far beyond close relatives - I have a painting of "Henry VIII"'s physician, who was actually my great great X many  grandfather.  My aunt traced our history back, and dang, he looks just like my uncle! 

[Charleneanne]

This is my father's eldest brother.  At about age 18-19 he got into a serious argument with his father and packed up and left.  No one saw him again for 30 years.  About 10 years after he left, his mom (my paternal grannie) contacted the FBI to see if they could locate him.  Every year they called her and asked if she still was looking until 1960 when they called and said they found him.  Apparently not too long after he left home, he got into trouble and went to prison.  After he got out, he legally changed his name and made a life for himself.  He never married or had kids but had a "woman" friend in New England he lived with off and on when not living in Florida.  His two youngest siblings who were not even born when he left home went down to Florida to meet him and see if he would come visit grannie and grandpa Vernie.  They waited for about half an hour but he never showed and then . . . . . .  my aunt Nancy started running down the street and hugged a strange man.  She said you look just like two of my other brothers.  lol  It was him.   Eventually he started calling my grannie and when grandpa Vernie was dying of cancer in 1964, Uncle V.M. came home and helped take care of him the last 7 weeks of his life.  He came home for 2 weeks every week in December after that to visit grannie until she died in 1975.  Aunt Nancy kept in touch by mail but eventually  stopped hearing from him.  They got a phone call from a stranger in 1982 looking for another of my uncles.  Seems he had been corresponding with Uncle James as well.  They called to say he had died.    All of this is in hidden journaling attached to the back of the layout.
The photos are of him with a friend at about age 15-16, one apparently in his 30's that came in his effects when they sent them after he died, and the last one probably about 50  from his "woman" friend when my aunt Nancy went up to meet her. 

[meterr70]

This is my great great grandmother Hattie Belle.. My great grandma Auras mom. I knew Aura (born 1891) but not Hattie (born 1875)

[StacyLee]

This is my father's eldest brother.  At about age 18-19 he got into a serious argument with his father and packed up and left.  No one saw him again for 30 years.  About 10 years after he left, his mom (my paternal grannie) contacted the FBI to see if they could locate him.  Every year they called her and asked if she still was looking until 1960 when they called and said they found him.  Apparently not too long after he left home, he got into trouble and went to prison.  After he got out, he legally changed his name and made a life for himself.  He never married or had kids but had a "woman" friend in New England he lived with off and on when not living in Florida.  His two youngest siblings who were not even born when he left home went down to Florida to meet him and see if he would come visit grannie and grandpa Vernie.  They waited for about half an hour but he never showed and then . . . . . .  my aunt Nancy started running down the street and hugged a strange man.  She said you look just like two of my other brothers.  lol  It was him.   Eventually he started calling my grannie and when grandpa Vernie was dying of cancer in 1964, Uncle V.M. came home and helped take care of him the last 7 weeks of his life.  He came home for 2 weeks every week in December after that to visit grannie until she died in 1975.  Aunt Nancy kept in touch by mail but eventually  stopped hearing from him.  They got a phone call from a stranger in 1982 looking for another of my uncles.  Seems he had been corresponding with Uncle James as well.  They called to say he had died.    All of this is in hidden journaling attached to the back of the layout.
The photos are of him with a friend at about age 15-16, one apparently in his 30's that came in his effects when they sent them after he died, and the last one probably about 50  from his "woman" friend when my aunt Nancy went up to meet her. 


 

What a very interesting story, I'm so glad you shared it!  You really nailed what I love the most about heritage scrapbooking, the stories!  I love that you found a way to journal the story by placing it on the back and using several photos for your layout. 

[Tammey]

For the Heritage Challenge I dug out this photo of my Dad and his little Brother. I never got to meet him because he died when he was young. This is the only photo that my Dad had of him. It is over 50 years old. I did a masculine layout and I combined with the Use Your Stash Challenge.


I lifted this layout from StacyLee

[blbabe1234]

Robert E Lee Boggs was the son of William H Boggs and Sarah Ann Mosier. He is my 3rd great uncle.

Robert Boggs was a shoe repair man in Chico, California in the early 1900s. On August 11, 1918, he heard something downstairs and he was shot twice by a house robber. Robert died at the hospital a few hours later. He was only 43 years old, leaving behind a wife and 4 children.

[Retiree3]

I don't know much about the photo, but I do know that these are relatives of my grandfather on my mother's side.




 

[sherelm]

Last night I couldn't get this to go on my message to save my soul, so I thought, ok, I'll wait until tomorrow (today).  I was using my phone, but it went into the gallery, but not here.  Oh well. 
This is of my maternal grandfather and his sons-in law - and their fathers - and I got to know my one uncle, the other one I saw for the first time at his funeral... I don't think that should count - but their fathers whom I'm not really related to - I never saw.  My grandfather also died when I was just shy of 4.  The photo is dated September 1938.  All males, too!