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
Roses Aren’t Perfect – Family Stories Shouldn’t be Either
We want to see the people of our past—at least the people we love—as most of us see a rose. Perfect. Flawless. Thorn-less. Let’s take the dozen roses that we so often have delivered. Colors may vary, but they are always...
Icebreakers: What Really Matters to You
Icebreakers can work for writers as well as speakers. We know ice breaker games from summer camps, team building meetings, and orientations. Fun, get-to-know-each-other exercises. Toastmasters International has their own...
Family Inheritances: Trash or Treasure?
Is the trash or treasure question equivalent to the flower or weed question? Does the answer lie completely in the eye of the beholder? Like a lot of things, it’s not as simple as that. For instance, soil content, and...
Recapturing Childhood Feelings
Recapturing childhood feelings sounds like an impossible task, doesn’t it? Once again experiencing days—or even moments—of innocence, wonder, or naïve joy. Difficult perhaps. But not impossible. Sometimes it even happens...
Century-Old Honeymoon Journal: New York City in 1916
A century-old honeymoon journal gives us a view of New York City in 1916 as seen through the eyes of a young woman from Ohio. We've done a little time-traveling, courtesy of Sid and Myrtle (Lookabaugh) Earhart, accompanying...
Story Prompt: Favorite Toy or Possession
A description of a favorite toy or possession can tell a deeper story, whether it was your own or someone else’s. My mind immediately goes back to those 5” x 5” black and white photos of the sixties. If my sister had had...
A Genealogy Problem: Accessible Records of Enslaved Individuals
Descendants of enslaved people have a lot harder time digging out the stories of their ancestors. Considered “property,” these ancestors weren’t afforded the dignity of having their names and birth dates recorded on census...
Writing Postcards: A Lost Art in Need of Revival
Like my pack-rat tendencies, I come by my love of writing postcards honestly. My mom was an avid postcard writer and both my parents were sentimental savers. They saved greeting cards, mementos, letters, and of course,...
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