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
9 Ways to Get Back On Track
Procrastination and distraction are two of my best talents. In fact, I’ve been exercising them quite a bit lately! Which makes it seem like a great time to write about how to get back on track. Re-examine your motives, not...
What’s in a name? Sharing Surname History
Aside from the “cock” part and the inherent playground emotional trauma that comes with bearing it, the Hedgecock name has a lot to be proud of. Since I only adopted that name after my marriage, I confess to letting a...
What’s Your Fathers’ Day Story?
Fathers' Day isn’t always about the idyllic childhood or the perfect nuclear family. Not everyone has a fathers' day story worthy of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The lucky among us (including me) celebrate and...
Heart-Stopping Foot in Mouth
Have you ever said something and as soon as it left your lips, you would have given your eye-tooth (I don’t actually know which one that is) to have your words back again? Failing that, you’d like to dissolve into the...
Memorializing Veterans on Memorial Day
What's Memorial Day? A day for memorializing a veteran--or veteran's story? We treat Memorial Day as a remembering day, not a memorializing day. And what better day could there be for memorializing? Celebrating and...
Laugh at Yourself — Everyone Else Does
That misquote from B.J. Neblett didn’t go over so well with my mom when my Dad said it to her in the mid-sixties. Mom had a great sense of humor, but she didn’t like being teased. I often wonder if it’s because my uncle Joe...
My Mom, a Birthday Party, and Fairy-Tales
Why Mom wanted to make my dreams come true and what that has to do with a birthday party. A Mother’s Day Tribute: This mother’s day I decided to practice what I blog and write down one of my favorite memories of my mom. The...
Memories of Your First Home: Placing the Emotional Furniture
As you write about memories of your first home (or any other place), include some emotional furniture. If you're like me and don't have any (or very few) memories of your first home, don't page away. There are many ways to...
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