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
Should We Include DNA Results in Family Stories?
Should family historians and memory collectors include DNA results in family stories? Back in 2019 I published Do DNA results Help You Discover Family Stories?, opining that DNA stories are not the same as family stories...
How to Help When Someone Loses a Spouse
What can you do when someone loses a spouse? Cheryl Conklin of wellnesscentral.info has some practical advice, some of which involves preserving memories and treasures. The death of a spouse is perhaps the most agonizing...
Does my family story need a narrative arc?
A narrative arc or story arc can help family historians write riveting stories. To decide whether your family’s stories could benefit, let’s talk about what a narrative arc is. What’s a Narrative Arc aka Story Arc? A...
Writing Ancestor Stories without Judgment
Not only do family historians and memoir writers want to convey compelling stories untinged by mistruths and embellishments, they also want to tell those family and ancestor stories without judgment. How do we do that? It’s...
Writing about Difficult Chapters in your Family History: A Guide
Writing about difficult chapters in your family history is hard. Exposed family secrets and stories about sensitive topics can cause an uproar in the family if they aren’t handled correctly. They seem to prefer to lurk in...
12 Tips on Finding and Using Templates for Family Stories
Whether you’re working on adding stories to your scrapbooking layouts or wanting to dress up your narratives, finding templates for family stories or family histories can be a chore. This came to mind as a fellow blogger,...
Scrivener 3: A Review
As a beta user of Scrivener 3 by Literature and Latte for the last two years, I was excited to see Literature and Latte announce its release. Before we go into the improvements Scrivener 3 brings to Windows users (the Mac...
How to Choose which Family Stories to Write
With all our collected memories and family stories, most of us aren’t sure how to choose which family stories to write. The abundance of material presents a problem common to family history storytellers and memoirists....
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