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
In Between: Grasping at Now
A Five Minute Friday Meditation: In between What's in between the future and the past? Every Friday, Lisa-Jo Baker, founder of "Five Minute Friday," broadcasts a writing prompt, challenging writers to writer for five...
Becoming a Family: When Baby Made 3 or More
Don’t just preserve memories of your children, capture and share your memories of becoming a family. Every child—even grown-up ones—will enjoy reading about the excitement and joyful anticipation with which they were...
Letter Writing: How to Preserve the Art
Letter writing, particularly letters written in cursive, stamped, and mailed, is a dying art. When we look through storage boxes, some of most precious jewels we’ll find are letters. (See An actual Treasure Chest of...
Don’t Lose the Little Traditions!
When we think about traditions, we think about the big ones, like holidays and family reunions. Listening to “8 Years Lost,” Paperclipping.com’s Round Table interview with Jackie Wood, I was struck by her yearning to...
6 Fun Ways to Trigger Summer Memories
Lazy Days of Summer Memories Summer is not only a great time to bask in the sun. It’s also a wonderful time to bask in, and write about, your summer memories. As soon as Michigan temperatures rise to “reasonably warm,” I...
Five Minute Friday: Listen
#FiveMinuteFriday 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 post, not a profound post,...
Scrapbook Tutorial: What June Means to Me
Today’s post is part of the June Blog Hop and offers a scrapbook tutorial for my interpretation of our "What June Means to Me…” theme. What does June mean to you? We hope our interpretations will provide you with some...
4 Ways to Share Memories with Dad
Fathers Day is a great time to share memories with dad, but it's not the only time you might want to share memories with the father-figure in your life. Whether it's a dad or granddad that you miss or honoring the man in...
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