Madison
County Genealogical Society
Minutes of the Meeting - October 11, 2012
The October 2012 meeting of the Madison
County Genealogical Society was held at the EdwardsvillePublic
Library on Thursday, October 11, at 7:00 pm.
President, Robert Ridenour, called the
meeting to order.
GIFT
MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE
Do you have a family member that is
interested in (or even obsessed with) genealogy? A membership in the Madison
County Genealogical Society would be a very thoughtful gift. A gift card will
be sent to the recipient of any gift membership.
The following memberships are available:
Individual/Family Annual Membership $20.00
Patron Annual Membership $30.00
Life Membership $250.00
Contact our Secretary, Petie Hunter, at petie8135@att.net, about a gift membership.
October
Meeting
On October 11, 2012, Lola DeGroff presented a program on Creating a Digital
Scrapbook.
Lola said that when she started out in digital scrapbooking, she tried several
scrapbooking programs. She found that many of the programs created results that
could only be used by the creating program. That meant that to share the
scrapbook with someone else, they would have to use the same program. She
finally found Scrapbook Flair, which allows the user to export the scrapbook
files in a JPEG format. A JPEG file is an image file and can be opened by many
different programs, even on different operating systems.
Scrapbook Flair is a very inexpensive Windows system program. It is a free
download or, if you want a CD copy it will cost $5 for shipping.
The program has many graphics on the CD and there are even more available on
the Scrapbook Flair website <http://www.ScrapbookFlair.com>
Lola brought the Scrapbook Flair program on a CD and several of the attendees
brought their laptops and loaded the program. She also brought a CD of
additional backgrounds, fonts, and embellishments. Lola had a handout that
leads you through the steps of creating a scrapbook page and exporting it as a
JPEG. It then leads the user through the steps of uploading the pages and
having the scrapbook printed.
If you would like a copy of this
handout, it can be downloaded or printed here.
This was an
interesting presentation and generated questions and comments from the
audience.