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
Faded Memories: What to do When Details are Missing
Three sisters recall a faded memory from over 50 years ago. Each recalls a slightly different circumstance. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? What’s the truth? Memories can be ethereal. It can be hard to get all the details right....
Describe Ancestors’ Personalities –Not Just Facts
Including personality and character traits when we describe ancestors sounds like a tall order. Sometimes we’re doing good just to figure out what they looked like. However, too often when we describe ancestors and older...
Changes in Technology: What Do You Remember?
How have changes in technology changed your life? What changes in technology have you seen? At my son's 2012 high school graduation, the school presented a slide show of technology that had not yet been invented when the...
Make A Wish: Birthday Scrapbook Tutorial
Today's post is part of the Creative Crafters' Make a Wish Blog Hop. I hope you've enjoyed your hop so far and I'm glad you're here. If you’re coming from Connie Umstead's blog, you are in the right place! (If you want to...
5 Simple Ways to Show Off Your Personal Fashion History
What’s your personal fashion history? As fashion trends have come and gone, which ones have resonated with you over the years? (That might not be the same question as which ones actually looked good on you.) Which ones did...
15 Ways to Honor Relatives You Don’t Remember
What happens if you don’t remember a family member or relative? How do you write about them or share their “memory?”if you don't even remember them? In a perfect world, we’d all have our own memories of both our parents and...
Remember When – Exactly, Precisely When
When an event of great historical or emotion consequence occurs, we don’t just remember when —we remember the precise moment, what we were doing, whom we were with, and even what the weather was like. Scientists call these...
John Kingston’s The Send Off
The Send Off tells of what happens when childhood hopes literally take to the air. Today I'm proud of myself for talking my friend and fellow author, John Kingston, into guest posting a "Monday Memory." John shares a...
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