Treasure Chest of Memories
Helping You Tell the Stories of the Past
Share Your Treasures—Your Memories and Stories
Stop in and explore. This website is full of ideas, tips, and resources to help you preserve and share your memories and family stories.
Fill your own Treasure Chest of Memories–a collection of stories that warm you and your loved ones, cementing relationships and sparking conversations.
Don’t Wait. Put the episodes of the past to paper.
We all have stories to share with our children and grandchildren. Whether it’s a proud moment, memories of grandparents, or a lesson you’ve learned, Memories of Me: A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life helps you put the episodes of your past onto paper and share them with loved ones. Read More
New – Eight-part Self-Paced Video Course on Telling Your Stories
In partnership with Vivid-Pix Education
Discover how to create connectional narratives which capture the past while enjoying reminiscing with the people you love.
Find out how to choose photos to help tell and elicit stories, use guided reminiscence to elicit stories from loved ones, increase recall, and hone your storytelling skills.
Find out more or purchase at Vivid-Pix Education.
Blogging for Family History: How To Launch a Blog and Make it Successful guides family historians as they identify their blogging goals, determine which website-building platform best fits their needs, configure a site, and create engaging content that connects with readers.
Recent Posts from the Blog
RootsTech London: Not your Average Family History Conference
RootsTech London takes place 24-26 October 2019 at the ExCel convention center. It’s the perfect recipe. The conference combines education, exhibitors from around the world, a splash of entertainment, and undercurrent of...
Including context in Immigration Stories
Context in immigration stories is crucial to understanding the past. Context explains why, what happened, and what was that like. Information missing from the documents. Details that make compelling stories. In...
Starting Life Stories: Experts’ Advice on Where and How to Do It
Whether it's your first draft or the final edits of a memoir, starting Life Stories can be hard. Here's what four of my favorite experts had to say. (You can read my opinion in Where to Start Telling Your Stories.) Before...
Brains on Stories: Implications for Family Historians
We all know stories bring history alive in a way that facts alone cannot. Neuroscience explains why. Looking at our brains on stories has lots of implications for family historians. Remember that anti-drug commercial which...
Intentional Tangents: Taking a Circuitous Route to Writing your Story
(aka when Tangents aren’t really so Tangential, aka Bringing the Subtext out of the Closet) Because they reflect relationships, stories are often complex. Sometimes the family storyteller has to apply a little tact. At my...
45 Spring Story Prompts
Inspired by Elizabeth O’Neal’s May “Spring Fever” Genealogy Blog Party, I decided that we could all use a few spring story prompts to get our creative juices churning, blogger or not. (If you are a blogger, however, please...
The International African American Museum: Can Family History Heal?
When it opens its doors in 2021, visitor at the International African American Museum (IAAM) will look out over Gadsden’s Wharf, the point at which 100,000 enslaved Africans first set foot on American soil. Harvard...
Repurposing Memories: DIY Projects Using Maps
Rescue the old maps you’ve saved and repurpose those memories. Try one of these fun DIY projects using maps. Since homemade gifts are always well received (though not always identical to the pictures on Pinterest), I...
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