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
Re-live Fall Memories by Making New Ones
What fall memories are special to you? Chances are that you can revive, if not re-live, a lot of them. Here are some ideas on immersing yourself in fall and fall memories. After all, the more you remember, the easier it is...
Family Fibs: Lies Parents Tell Children
NBC’s Today show did a short segment on family fibs. These are stories that parents tell children, probably because reasoning with them is much more cumbersome. The funniest was Carson Daly’s report that his family told...
Scenes from a Gallup Motel, 1996
John Kingston is guest posting today with his memories of a Gallup (NM) motel. In this post, John illustrates how preserving a memory can allow you to take your readers back in time and space. Roaches. I open...
Vacation Memories: 6 Ways to Share Your Trip
When we first come home from a trip, we’re excited to show off our photos and talk about our vacation memories. But, as our tans fade, so does the gumption to write about our adventures. Don’t keep your vacation memories to...
Writing about Depression: How to Share
Outside of therapy centers, writing about depression – or even about sad times – doesn’t come easily. Perhaps it’s because we start out our lives reading fairy-tales that end “happily ever after.” Until we’re sure we’ll...
5 Ideas for Writing about Turning Points
You don’t have to be writing a memoir to want to tell about the turning points in your life. Sharing those big decisions is a great way of telling the story of how you got to where you are on your journey. You don’t have to...
Aftermath: What happened afterwards?
In the immediate aftermath of a big event (or even a small one), we seldom have the time, energy or presence of mind to record our memories. Generally, we somehow get around to documenting the event itself, but we forget...
Family History Month Activities for Non-Genealogists
Family History Month isn’t just for genealogists. With these simple ideas, non-genealogists can honor an ancestor or learn about their family history. Let’s say you haven’t caught the family history research bug (yet)....
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