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
Who do you see in the mirror? A Writing Prompt.
Do you, like the queen in Snow White, wonder what others see when they gaze at your countenance? Who do you see in the mirror when you take an objective look? What should others understand about your looks? Reflecting on...
Sharing Scanned Family Documents and Photos Online: Pros and Cons
Before you decide what you think about sharing scanned family documents and photos online, take a few minutes to consider the pros and cons. Note: This article focuses on uploading digital files to genealogy-related...
6+ Last-Minute Christmas Gifts that Matter
It’s hard to connect to the peace of Christmas when you’re still shopping, holding out for Christmas gifts that matter. Here’s my list of last-minute ideas for busy family storytellers and historians. (See also 7 Ideas for...
Deck the Halls with Memories and Stories
Decking the halls with memories and stories makes a wonderful way to make holiday decorations more meaningful. At any time of year, the photographs, keepsakes, and art we display on our walls often represent significant...
Remembering an Embarrassing Moment
If it were truly humiliating, remembering an embarrassing moment could turn out to be less of a problem than how to stop re-living it. However, those minor incidents tend to disappear from memory. (Or is that repression?)...
Stories of Gratitude: A Deeper Family Tradition
Many times, we write about the things for which we’re grateful instead of telling stories of gratitude. There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ve even suggested it myself. (See, for example, my post from 5 years ago: Write...
Childhood Friends Storytelling Prompt
Preserving memories of childhood friends goes hand-in-hand with a with a reminiscence back to those lazy days of childhood. Brainstorming about the people you spent time with, whether it was doing nothing in particular or...
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