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
Personal Tragedy —Helping family “Get it”
Personal tragedy is different from the rest of our ups and downs. It’s the moment that life is divided into before and after. Events of personal tragedy—and I hope you don’t have them—are huge mile-markers on life’s...
Where I Feel Like I Belong
I don't always feel like I belong. Today's post is part of Lisa-Jo Baker's "Five Minute Friday." Each Friday she broadcasts a writing prompt, challenging writers to write for five minutes only. In her words, "It's not a...
Cheater’s Guide to Preserving Kids’ Awards
Kids' awards are natural gems for a Treasure Chest. We all want to preserve, highlight, and display all our kids’ awards, but a hectic life and our natural propensity to procrastinate get in the way. Here’s some quick and...
Your Memories: 5 More Reasons to Share
The title says it all—here are 5 more reasons (and one old one) why you should write about your memories. Your Memories Matter First of all, you don’ t have to live a “Wow—you-should-write-a-book-about-your-life” type of...
Life Challenges: Explaining How You Cope
Everyone faces at least one life challenge. No one, or at least no one that I know of, sails through life without facing some type of difficulty. When you reveal the challenges you have faced in your life, you allow others...
4 Ways to Write about Lessons Learned
Just as we are keepers of memories, we are keepers of lessons learned. That’s not to say that others can simply read about our experiences and avoid their own lessons. But we do learn from one another’s stories, especially...
Beautiful Reflection: What Does the Mirror Tell You?
A Five Minute Friday Meditation: Beautiful Every Friday, Lisa-Jo Baker, founder of "Five Minute Friday," broadcasts a writing prompt, challenging writers to writer for five minutes only. In her words, "It's not a perfect...
Personal Writing: When NOT to Share
Personal Writings in your “Treasure Chest” Preserving memories and sharing memories often go hand-in-hand. However, not every part of a “Treasure Chest” needs to be shared with loved ones, or anyone at all. There’s...
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