One of my favorite activities consists of researching and writing about my family stories, along with developing scrapbooks that depict these tales.  In fact, I’ve been developing this into a business that brands me as a family writer.
You’ll find many ways to save your family memories in scrapbooks:

Simply a collection of pictures with names or captions
Adding journal notes and explanations to the pictures
Writing stories and using the photos and pictures to illustrate
Write a fiction story, or biography, illustrated with scrapbooking techniques, as I’ve been doing with the story of my Uncle William “Buffalo Bill” Mathewson of New York State …read more

Scrapbooking doesn’t need to be used solely by itself.  You can incorporate these techniques into other projects:

 Collages
Books
Altered Books
Cards & Notepaper
Watercolor and acrylic paintings
Mixed media
Shadow boxes

 I’m having fun doing the illustrations for my William (Buffalo Bill) Mathewson book utilizing scrapbooking techniques.  The original will reveal more of the actual three-dimensional aspect.  Yet the copies, which I’m making for family members (William Mathewson, the first Buffalo Bill, is an ancestor) and possibly to sell, still will show something of the unique effects. 
How have you used scrapbooking techniques in other projects?

AlzheimersNotes.com
Since Alzheimer’s patients, at a certain stage of the illness, often live in the past, why not incorporate this family legacy into time travel for the youngsters in your household this summer?  Take advantage of the Alzheimer’s member’s memories…record and scrapbook them for your family legacy.
However, youngsters are familiar with time travel books so popular nowadays.  Why not do some time travel as you delve into these memories?

Find places on a map that Grandma tells about.
Research how she lived when she was a little girl
See how far back you can follow your family tree
Find out about those eras and what …read more