I am a, not too serious anymore, genealogist for my family. Right now I am more into making pages that showcase the relatives, but have done MANY layouts using materials for the following ladies
If you are looking for some really great Vintage/Heritage kits, then look at Tina Williams and crews offerings over at
http://tinawilliamsdesigns.com/scrap/
There are many different kits, but the Grandma and GrandPa series by Tina is full of goodies (photo albums, tools, etc). She also has several really great kits that are Heritage but not in those series.
Idgie has many brushes and antiques you can use to spruce up your Heritage layouts. Idgie's Antique Shoppe series is just full of nice things if you like to make the room style layouts, plus you might see that piece you remember from Grandma's house.
I am a CT for Tina, so have used almost all of her kits so speak from personal knowledge how workable the kits are and all of them blend so can be mixed and matched.
Ok enough advertising,
Lois AKA Ladye