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
Facing Ancestors’ Past & Not Liking What We See
We all saw Ben Afflecks’s embarrassment over his ancestor’s slave ownership splash across headlines. To me, the surprise wasn’t that he wanted Finding Your Roots to edit out that information. What surprised me was that the...
Connotative Words: Are You as Neutral as You Think?
By choosing connotative words, we sometimes communicate things we don’t mean to say. Are you as neutral as you think? Read on. Intentional or not, word choices can convey value judgments or carry an emotional connotation....
Emotional Genealogy: Are You Visited by Ghosts of the Past?
Today, I'm particularly pleased to present a guest post by Judith Fein and her concept of emotional genealogy. When I gave my first talk about the power of Emotional Genealogy, I wondered if anyone would be able to connect...
Write about Average: He’s Interesting Too!
When you write about average, others look at the details and see something a lot more compelling than simply "average". Average gets a bad rap. Well, not so much a bad rap as not enough rap. We seldom hear about him or her....
Why You Should Care that I’m related to AJ Jacobs
Because it’s not really about AJ and me. It’s about the fact that we’re all related—by blood, adoption, and marriage. Well, in a way it’s about AJ, since he’s the one organizing the Global Family Reunion. I can sense your...
Going Back Even Though You Can’t– a la Star Trek
We all know that going back home isn’t an option. But a girl can dream. Last week, as the plane approached Greenville-Spartanburg (South Carolina) International Airport, the sight of red clay gave me a twinge. Home beckoned...
Promises Made, Kept or Forgotten
Remember (if you’re approximately my age) how we used to cross our hearts and “hope to die”? We’d earnestly pledge ourselves to some action or affection, pantomiming the heart crossing as if we (in my case, good Southern...
Providing Context: Will they know who you are in the barber shop?
How do the stories you tell affect your loved ones’ image of you? Through your stories, you’re providing context that your loved ones will use to understand you better. In essence, you're projecting an image. For instance,...
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