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
How to Write About a Childhood Home
Last month, we looked at Writing about your Childhood Home. "Come with me back to my Childhood Home" was the title that my grandmother used when she left us a piece about one of the homes of her childhood in her...
My Song
“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...
Write About Grandparents: How to and Why
Memories of grandparents are a treasure. That's why it's so important to write about grandparents when we preserve our stories. Not everyone has had the privilege of knowing any, much less all, of their grandparents. The...
May Flowers – How to Honor the Family Gardener
Today's post is part of the “May Flowers” Blog Hop. I hope you've enjoyed your hop so far and I'm glad you're here. If you’re coming from Krysthle Poitras’ blog Krysthle’s Designs you are in the right place! (If you landed...
How to Create a Written Time Capsule
When we’re anticipating a milestone event, we focus on the event itself, not what is going on in the world around us. Later on, however, it’s fun to look back in context of what was happening in the world around us. For...
How to Find a Creative Space for Writing about your Memories
A good creative space for writing can facilitate your memory journal writing or blogging, not to mention your recall. But, let’s face it. Very few of us can write anywhere. Finding your groove may involve finding a physical...
Wild Weather–12 Ways to Preserve Meteorological Memories
In her post today, Staci Troilio points out that unseasonal weather makes an intriguing backdrop for fiction stories. Since life is so frequently stranger than fiction, that goes double to those of us writing about...
Video Clips – 6 Ways to Preserve Memories
Video cameras are getting smaller and less expensive. Here are some great ways to use video clips to preserve and share your memories. If you’re blogging, it’s easy to embed a clip into your blog. If you’re using paper and...
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