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
Agony of Defeat: 5 Ways to Write about It
Life isn’t always about winning, so it makes sense that we’d want to write about the agony of defeat as well as about our accomplishments. In fact, these stories of missing the mark are often the ones that connect us to...
Memories: Why We Repress Them & How to Recover Them (Part 1)
Guest Poster Bobbi Parish-Logie helps us understand repressed memories and how they are recovered. I'm excited to introduce Bobbi Parish-Logie and the first of two guest posts on repressed and recovered memories. It's a...
12+ Ideas for Writing about Romance
Romantic stories belong in any personal legacy. However, there are many ways you can go about writing about romance. With Cupid standing in the wings, waiting for his and Hallmark’s big day, I thought I’d cover some basic...
How Your Writing is Therapeutic for Others
We know writing is therapeutic for the writer. (If you don’t, refer back to Write about Memories: It's Therapeutic! and Ovarian Cancer: Journaling and Healing). But that’s not the full extent of it. Here are a few of...
Remember the Romance – Scrapbook Tutorial
When we think about romance, we think about young love—star-crossed lovers and all that. We often forget to honor the enduring relationships. When you remember the romance, don’t forget to remember the long-term love...
The Rest of the Story: How Family Stories Fill Gaps in Research.
Stories matter. Not just the bare bones stories based on facts, but the rest of the story. Personalities, proclivities, relationships, and experiences are an important part of preserving your family history. Flynn Coleman...
Busted! How to Write about Getting Caught
Getting caught and getting in trouble are childhood memories we all share. Whether our crimes were big or small, numerous or far and few between, we’ve been busted. Don't just share the times you come off smelling like a...
Tell the Story Behind the Smiles
Photos of people laughing—especially group shots of people laughing—are jewels for memory keepers. A picture tells a thousand words; we love seeing the happiness and camaraderie. However, many times there's a story behind...
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