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
Write that down! 4 Reasons to Just Do It
“You’ve got to write that down!” it’s usually directed at the parents of an adorable tot. Kid’s and the things they say do provide tons of fun memories! (See Writing—not bragging—about kids.) But it’s not just kids that say...
Open Hearts: Fighting Loneliness
Open hearts: A #FiveminuteFridayMeditation on "Lonely" Open hearts. Is that the key to fighting loneliness? The expression itself, “Open hearts” seems to put the burden on the lonely. They need only open their hearts and...
Lazy Days of Summer: 5 Ways to Bring them Back to Life
Here in the northern hemisphere, the lazy days of summer are starting to transition into the “Back to School” scramble. It’s my least favorite time of year—I hate to see the fun end and I loathe seeing my son go back to...
Going Away Gifts – Give One that Matters
The most meaningful and thoughtful going away gifts evoke fond memories. This is on my mind as a dear friend’s daughter is moving from Michigan to Virginia for her first job. Especially when the person moving is someone...
Our Story —Tell it; Live it
Our Story -- A #FiveMinuteFriday Meditation Telling our story implies narrating a book that is already written—the setting and characters are in place. Everyone is just waiting to see how it ends. That might be right for a...
How to Show and Tell about Your Hobbies
Share your memories by showcasing your passions and your hobbies. Your hobbies and interests can tell a lot about you. However, some hobbies lend themselves to showing-off better than others. If you’re a gardener and have...
Write a letter to yourself or bully or ….
To encapsulate your past and/or process your feelings, try this: Write a letter to past or future self, past nemesis, or anyone with (or about) whom you have unresolved feelings. Such rhetorical letters are a great way to...
An Oral History: Appendicitis in 1914
Oral histories are sometimes the only histories we have of our family. Last night I was chatting with my Uncle Joe and for the first time learned the details of my grandfather's—his father—near death experience. My...
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