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
Throw Back Thursday Everyday
I keep seeing my life—well at least the last eighteen to twenty years of it—flash before my eyes. It’s probably because my nest is emptying next week, as my youngest heads off to college. Everywhere I go, sweet memories...
Reminders of Home: 5 Things to Send to College
As kids embark for college, we want to provide them some reminders of home for their dorm rooms. It’s not only for their benefit. As much as we want them to be happy and successful, we also want them to think fondly of the...
Where to Start Telling Your Stories
There’s no pat answer on where to start telling your own and family stories. Though "it depends" may feel like a cop out, where to start should be up to you, not me or any other expert. That said, it’s easier to start some...
11 Things You Should Know About Writing Your Family History
Keep these points in mind to make writing your family history more fun, rewarding, and doable. Each of these is probably a post of its own, so stay tuned! 1. Writing Your Family History Isn't Just About the Research Don't...
Follow Friday Friends in High Places
Whether you're searching for ancestors, recording your family history, or writing your personal and family stories, friends come in handy. Commrades in arms (or pens or keyboards) will keep you inspired, grand you a fresh...
Car Memories and How to Write About Them
If there’s something that can come close to cotton candy’s ability to evoke the past, it’s car memories. We love to remember the cars we used to drive. Of course, car memories inevitably include the adventures we had in...
6 Great Ideas for Displaying Sentimental Items in your Home
Wouldn’t you like to honor loved ones by not only holding on to memorabilia, but by displaying sentimental items in your home? It’s hard to know what to do with sentimental items. We usually work our most cherished...
Telling Your Story: How Much Detail is too much?
How much detail is too much is subjective and it depends on your writing style. However, thinking about the following can help you determine if your details are serving your story and your readers well, or if they're, well...
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