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
In Lieu of Flowers
It's a pleasure to have John Kingston guest post and share his moving tribute to his mom. It remains one of my earliest memories of childhood: my brother’s 7th birthday party in the backyard of our house on Stevenson...
Dear Mommy: How to Describe Your Relationship with Mother
No Treasure Chest of Memories is complete without a description of our relationship with Mother. Of all our family relationships, our relationships with the woman (or women in some cases) who raised us are perhaps the most...
Writing about the Fulcrums in our Lives
We all people, events, and situations in our lives, who (or which) determine the teeter of our life’s teeter-tooter. Writing about the fulcrums in our lives provides a unique glimpse into our circumstances and...
Why Write About Death Anniversaries
Try as we might (or as I have), we can’t avoid marking the death anniversaries of loved ones. It’s unavoidable. Perhaps that’s because we need to remember our grief and gauge our progress. In Acknowledging Our Grief...
Honeymoon Diary Part 3: Philadelphia and Atlantic City
Today, we think of honeymoon trips as romantic getaways for a newly married couple. For Sid and Myrtle’s honeymoon, however, seems to be more along the lines of a nineteenth century “Bridal Tour,” a trip made to visit...
Why the past doesn’t define you but it’s still part of your story
That time that I lost it with my kids and screeched like a wounded hyena instead of remaining calm, doesn’t define me. A lot of the time, possibly even the vast majority of the time, I was a reasonably good parent. (And...
Story Prompt: “Roads Not Taken”
Do the proverbial "Roads not Taken" really make all the difference? They could for your stories. In her “PLEASE Stop Misinterpreting “The Road Not Taken,” Susan Baroncini-Moe makes a compelling argument that Robert...
How to Preserve Meaningful Stories à la Humans of New York
If there were a contest to see who could collect and preserve the most personal, meaningful stories, Brandon Stanton, founder of Humans of New York, would be winning it. Not that that’s what he set out to do. But looking...
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