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
How to Preserve Stories of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Often, when we look at our parents’, grandparents’, and ancestors’ history, the stories of pregnancy and childbirth are sparse. Without an eye-witness account, these chapters of your family history often remain unwritten....
Is my writing good enough?
Whether or not we voice it, it’s something we all wonder. We ask ourselves “Is my writing good enough?” before we pick up a pen (or digital age equivalent), as we write, and before we hit the save button. The question—the...
Difficult Decisions Make Great Stories: Tell How You Made Tough Choices
In Important Life Decisions: Writing your Stories, we looked at how to identify important life decisions to write about. In this post, we’ll look at the stories behind the choices we made. The story behind a difficult...
Wintergreen: Use Green to Highlight Winter Beauty
This month's blog hop theme is "Brought to You by the Color Green." Winter doesn't have to be blue. I decided to use green to highlight winter beauty. To start at the beginning of the hop, please visit Stamp Patty's...
What She Said: Memories of Voices
There’s probably a good reason that we wish for a phone call from Heaven. We crave to hear the voices of the people we love. We want to remember the things they said—and how they said it. You don’t have to be mourning a...
Important Life Decisions: Writing your Stories
Think about the important life decisions you've made over the decades. Which ones do you hope that your descendants and loved ones will respect? Learn from? Understand? Without a record of the choices we made, that...
Writing about Your Earliest Memory: 3 Reasons You Should
Writing about your earliest memory can present a challenge. Often, they’re not coherent. You might only remember a room, a noise, or impressions. However, writing about your earliest memory or memories and explaining why...
Part 2: How to Recover Repressed Memories
Part two of a series by Bobbi Parish-Logie addressing recovering repressed memories Memories: Why We Repress Them & How to Recover Them Welcome back everyone to part two of my short series about memories from the...
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