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
Once upon a time: Remember Wedding Dreams Coming True
Welcome to my stop on the Craft Squad's "I Do" Blog Hop. If you're coming from The Crafty Neighbor you are in the right place. If you want to start at the beginning, go to Roxie's Stamping Rooms...
Lives of World War I: How to Preserve Their Stories
Historians at London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) are trying to preserve the stories of 8 million people. That’s how many World War I stories they estimate are in danger of being lost to “living” memory. And, that's only...
The Coming Years (Give your Memories as a Gift):
One of the most meaningful things you can do for a loved one is to give your memories as a gift. My friend John Kingston illustrates this in "The Coming Years." By sharing what his first moments with them were like, he...
Mixed Emotions: Write about Conflicted Moments
We have a family member who likes to ask, “How did that make you feel?” Sometimes his question stops me in my tracks. I want to respond, “Do you have a half an hour?” We have moments—even months—that evoke a plethora of...
Memories of Me Blog Tour
A year ago, I didn't even know what a blog tour was. Basically Memories of Me going on a virtual road trip with a note from it's mother. For a three week period, various sites will feature the book with a review,...
My Hero & How to Tell the Story of Who Rescued You
I probably owe my life to a woman in Gates, New York. I wish I’d thought to get her name. We all have heroes in our past. Maybe it was someone who put you on the right path. Perhaps it was someone who literally saved you...
How Dreams Come True (at least this once)
I’m sitting on cloud nine. Cue the trumpets... Today, May 13, 2014 is the long awaited publish date of Memories of Me: A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life. It turns out that clouds are good for...
Eight Years of Memories Lost
Nothing brings home the fact that memories matter more than hearing about someone who has lost his or her ability to remember. Today, I’m excited to have Jackie Wood tell her story of eight years of memories lost, a...
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