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
Family Stories: Luck or Fate? (And the Hedgecock Family’s Close Call with the Titantic)
Depending on the researcher, writers portray family stories as tales of luck or fate, or of hard work, or even divine intervention. It’s not a new theme. Since its inception, scholars, educators, and high school students...
Belonging to Ancestors and Storytelling
“Connect. Belong.” The 2018 #RootsTech theme doesn’t only apply to current family members. Our ancestors belong to us in a sense. They are our family. But the reverse is also true. Belonging to ancestors provides us with an...
Connect. Belong. #RootsTech 2018
“Connect. Belong. Because it matters.” That’s how the opening session of #RootsTech 2018 began. And that theme will echo through the classrooms, main stage, and exhibit halls. Meaning family historians will be able to...
Family Love Letters Aren’t Just for Lovers
We think of family love letters as missives between star-crossed lovers. That’s not always the case. In fact, one of the loveliest testaments to love that I’ve ever read was a letter between sisters. After my mother’s...
Honeymoon Diary, Part 2: Meeting Grandfather
Reading and researching Sid and Myrtle (Lookabaugh) Earhart's honeymoon diary found in a postcard album, continues to be a journey back in time. In this "Meeting Grandfather" edition, our starry-eyed honeymooners take in...
Childhood Stories: 37+ Questions to Jog Your Grandparents’ Memories
It’s important to preserve our grandparents’ memories while we (and they) still have access to them. When it comes time to sit down with your loved one, the following list of questions can help eliminate any lulls in...
Writing about Wealth and Finances: It’s Part of the Family Story
Writing about wealth doesn’t entail revealing your net worth, bank balance, or what you hope to inherit from granny. Or at least it doesn’t normally. But like it or not, or finances do play a significant role in our...
Feeling Irresolute in January?
We all want a better year—or at least one that is as good as the previous one. Despite the best of intentions, most of us will struggle to keep the resolutions we make. Those of us feeling irresolute find it hard to even...
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