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
4 Ways Mind Maps Help With Storytelling and Writing
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The Importance of Saying Their Names
When we think of loved ones—those still walking amongst us and those whose time on earth exists only memory—recalling and saying their names matters. The utterance of individuals’ names has spiritual and ancestral...
Family Recipe: Hermit Bars
My husband's favorite Christmas treat was Hermit Bars that his mother made every year. We liken this New England treat to a gingerbread-ish bar with what my mother-in-law describes as a "milk glaze". (I like a lemon glaze...
Win a FREE RootsTech 2024 Pass
A free RootsTech 2024 Pass may be perfect for you, if you want to learn more about family history research, incorporate family memories into your stories, meet a lot of fun people, enjoy awesome keynotes, and see the...
Easter Memories and Why You Should Write about Them
My Easter memories probably differ from yours—unless you are my sister. That’s because our memories reflect the time and places we grew up in, our family and religious traditions, and a slew of other factors. Sharing our...
Uniting at RootsTech 2023
How did you see the 2023 theme Uniting at RootsTech 2023? Your answer probably depends on the way you experienced the conference—in-person or virtually.Uniting through Reunion For those of us who go to Salt Lake City from...
8 Things to Know about RootsTech2023
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Updated: Technology you already have: Use OCR to Transcribe Family Documents
Now that Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is more widely available, you can use OCR to transcribe family documents, letters, and journals. Updated 3/21/2024 IBM.com explains: Optical character recognition...
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