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
Blog Caroling In the Bleak Midwinter
An invitation was issued by LindaRae Palmer, aka the footnote Maven, to join in her annual tradition of Blog Caroling. Blog Caroling is simply “posting the lyrics, youtube video, etc. of your favorite Christmas...
Elopement! A Honeymoon Diary, Part 1
My exploration of the beautiful 100 year old art deco postcard album continues, this time with the typewritten Honeymoon Diary. Researching the historical context of the diary reveals quite an exciting elopement. (Read...
Who owns your family history?
Who owns your family history? You? The original researcher? The global family connected to it? Not too long ago, I retweeted, without much forethought, a quote by Rosemary Alva. “We Don't own our family history. We...
A Story in Captions: The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
Of all the things I expected to grace my dining room table, a photo album with captions retelling an eye-witness account of the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion wasn’t one of them. It's here on loan from one of my neighbors. One...
How to Preserve Traditions of Laughter
When we think about preserving and sustaining our family heritage, we often overlook the traditions of laughter. This comes particularly to mind as we approach Thanksgiving. I am truly, deeply thankful for the traditions of...
5 Great Family History Writing Strategies for Fall & Winter
As the temperatures drop, the days shorten (at least here in the northern hemisphere) and the trees lose their leaves, the momentum for writing about family history wanes too. To combat my own lethargy and procrastination,...
Now and Then: Comparing Photos Across Generations
Today, I'm launching a new blog series: What's in your Closet? Through these posts, I'll illustrate the stories and connection that are waiting in closets for their re-discovery. Like an old album that has you comparing...
Writing Prompt: What patriotism means to you
Here in the USA, there’s a lot of talk about patriotism, but seldom in the form of stories. We proclaim our fierce love of country without explaining what patriotism means to us. Without telling the backstory. If you’re...
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