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 About “Things I Want To Remember”
In her "Treasure Chest," my grandmother wrote an essay entitled “Things I Want to Remember.” In it, she briefly dwelt on her memories of each of her children. What makes this such a gem, however, isn’t simply a mother’s...
5 Tips for Writing about Travel Memories
Preserving Travel Memories Writing about travel adventures and memories doesn't have to take place during travel. Although having a journal or extensive travel notes is an advantage in sparking recall, it can be fun to...
Writing about Childhood Homes-4 Easy Ways to Start
Originally posted April 17, 2013; updated June 5, 2013 Traveling Down Memory Lane: Dwellings in which we spent our childhood years take on a prominent role in our memories. Perhaps it's that the layout of our homes dictated...
Write About Pets! 5 Easy Prompts to Get Started
Why Write about Pets in Your Memory Narratives? Pets and companion animals lend comfort, unconditional love, dirt, goofiness, dander, and more than a little comedy to their households. If you’ve had pets, they probably...
3 Types of Treasured Moments to Write About
Treasured Moments Matter Memories, whether pivotal experiences or small moments we treasure, reflect our lives, the lessons we have learned, and the paths we have chosen. In many lives, everyday events are just as likely as...
How to Write about Family Heirlooms: 4 Tips
Family heirlooms, however, aren’t just objects with significant monetary value. In fact, the objects we cherish often have less fiscal value than emotional significance. When we write about these physical treasures lurking...
A New Way To View Prayers of Praise
“Five Minute Friday” is a great writing exercise even if you’re not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are...
5 Amazingly Easy Prompts to Jump Start Writing your Family Story
Writing your family history sounds like a daunting task. However, if you start with small, episodic memories and narratives, it doesn’t have to be hard. Your Family Story is Your Story Don't worry about documenting a...
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