How to create a heritage photo album
A heritage photo album is a collection of photographs from your family’s history printed in a book to then be passed down from generation to generation. When it comes to preserving your photos, a durable hardcover album is going to be the best option, but feel free to browse all our photo albums and choose your favourite style. Traditional photo albums such as our fabric, foil-title photo albums will harmonise with the old-meets-new feel of your family photo album. The metallic foil lettering of your album’s title is pressed onto the fabric hardcover with a vintage Heidelberg hot-foil press, giving your family history photo album a unique and luxurious finish. The optional premium gift box that matches our fabric, foil-title photo books not only protects the album further but also transforms it into a sensational gift for a relative. Once you have picked the style of album you would like and selected the format and size, you can start to think about the photos that will fill it.
Choosing photos for a family history photo album
The key to creating a fascinating family photo book is to start at the beginning, with the oldest family portraits you have. Pay a visit to your elderly relatives and collect any photos they have from their childhood and even earlier, making a note of names and the relationships between everyone in each photo. You can then follow our instructions to scan your old photos so that you have a digital copy of them all, then select which to include in this album via the editing tool. As with any type of memories photo album, accompanying each photo with a caption will keep the memories alive and pass them on to future generations. Explore the page layouts available in the editing tool to choose those with text boxes, then add any information or anecdotes you have about each photograph. You may also wish to leave a blank double-page spread to insert or draw a diagram of your family tree.
Giving your family history photo album as a gift
Unique photo albums make lovely gifts for even those relatives who are notoriously tricky to buy for. And since the older generations are often unfamiliar with newer photo technologies, it is a kind gesture to make something new with their old photos for them. Your thoughtfulness will be much appreciated, and the premium quality of the album and photo printing will certainly impress the recipient of this gift. All our softcover and hardcover photo books make wonderful coffee table photo albums, but of course, it is your photos that will make the album truly special. If you like the idea of customising a family photo album as a gift from all the grandkids, then explore our catalogue of grandparents photo albums for more inspiration.
