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
15+ Reasons to Attend #RootsTech 2018
If you’ve experienced it you probably don’t need anyone to list off the reasons to attend RootsTech 2018. You know. If you’ve never been, let me help you out by showing you a few photos still on my phone from RootsTech 2017...
12 Ways to Celebrate Your Family’s History
What better time than Family History Month (October) to celebrate your family's history by sharing part of the family’s legacy. As Family History Month Activities for Non-Genealogists explained, Family History month isn’t...
Choosing Which Family Stories to Tell
“Your Ancestors are Waiting; They Have Stories to Tell,” a 2013 Ancestry.com blog title proclaims . I doubt my paternal grandmother is one of them. During her lifetime, she decided, for reasons that remain unclear, to lie...
How Ancestor Stories are like Potato Chips
Americans over 30 probably remember Lay’s potato chip commercials declaring “You can’t eat just one.” Ancestor stories are like potato chips —a non-fattening, healthy version—that shouldn’t be limited to just one. Lest you...
Which Photos Represent your Family Story?
It's a blessing to have tons of family pictures, but the options can make it harder to decide which photos represent your family story. Listening to my favorite expert on choosing photos that portray moments that matter...
How Family Stories Fill in the Gaps: A Case Study
During a single afternoon visit with an eighty-three-year old cousin back in 1996, my mother confirmed family traditions that put my grandmother’s life—and her stories—in context. Usually, when family stories fill in the...
Listening Skills and Conversations: Keys to Collecting Stories
When I joined Toastmasters to improve my public speaking, their emphasis on listening skills surprised me. It shouldn’t have. Listening, as opposed to simply hearing, is the key to effective communications. Good listening...
On Memory Factories and Legacy Makers
If we're lucky, our brains still function as memory factories. When the need arises, we’re able to fill the orders to remember that story, that person, and with a little prompting, that name. But we’re factories that work...
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