Preserving Family Memories as a Business
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Many Boomers are at a stage where family memories have great meaning.
They also are into scrapbooking and journaling. They often are caregivers for parents or relatives and find themselves saving those persons’ memories for children, grandchildren and future generations.
They realize, as Mma Ramotswe did, in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, about her father: His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?
There are members of my family, who have died without children or spouse or anyone to record their lives. If I don’t do it, who will? Will they be simply a statistic in future years when I’m not here to share memories about them?
This may occur to other Boomers, who want to preserve family members. They may desire to preserve memories. You can help them!
- Sell scrapbooking and journaling supplies
- Conduct classes on scrapbooking and journaling.
- Show them how to record family stories and their memories.
- Assist them with research
- Do research for them.
- Make these memory books for them.
2 Comments
In addition to scrapbooking, which I love, it is important to record the stories of your living relatives.
Everybody has an interesting story to tell and passing it on to future generations is one thing we can do. Finding an old diary of an ancestor is great, it reveals so much, but in this day and age diaries are not so common. Take the time to talk with your extended family and record their life story.
Since starting my scrapbooking business, I have been personally rewarded by helping others. It can be a bit daunting to try to get started with the staggering number of products out there. I grew up doing scrapbooking so it has become second nature and I cherish all of my books. Doing layouts and books for others, whether traditional or digital, hopefully can produce something that someone else will cherish as well.
Diana
http://www.MemoryBookArchitects