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
A Regular Visitor in My Dreams
I used to hate my dream of a visit from my late father. Waking up to the reality of my loss was brutal. I didn’t want to go there if it had to end. Now it’s like re-reading a favorite book. It always starts the same—in the...
How to Turn Dry Facts Into Stories
I admit the prospect of taking dry historical facts and turning them into stories that the rest of the family—much less the rest of the world—will find interesting is intimidating. It sounds like some literary alchemy or...
How to Write about your Dreams for Change
Writing about your dreams can strike a chord with loved ones and readers. Just as writing about childhood hopes and dreams can shed light on your personal journey, your dreams for others matter as well. They explain who you...
When to Write about Hurt and Anger
Experiencing hurt and anger are a part of life. We all experience it. If we’re honest, we probably all cause it as well. It's hard to know whether to protect or share our wounds, whether we want to write about it. If we do,...
6 Ways to Write about Unexpected Friendships
It’s not just love that we find in the most unexpected places—it’s also friendship. The "when" and "how" of unexpected friendships make great stories. Unexpected friendships despite first impressions Particularly when we...
Introducing Memories of Me (the book)
Introducing Memories of Me ~ A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life That’s right, a new book for memory collectors will be released this May. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Wow, that title sounds...
How to Write about Memories of Mentors
Memories of mentors often get lost in the shuffle. Almost all of us have had someone who played a special role in our lives, but because they don’t fall neatly into our “family” history, we neglect to preserve their...
Writing about Childhood Fears
It can be fun—and enlightening—to look back at the things we feared as children. Some of our fears seem laughable. Others give us insight into our adult angst and proclivities. Personally, I was afraid of the Abominable...
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