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
Scanning Old Photos: 3 Ways to Get it Done
Digitizing Your Photo Archives and Scanning Old Photos How do you get your photo archives into digital (CD or hard drive) format? If you’re like me, you have boxes, organizers, and albums of photos, not to mention slides...
Who Are My Friends?
"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...
An Actual Chest of Memories: Is there one at your house?
If you want to get technical, my brain is a treasure chest of memories. Since I’ve had a MRI, I guess theoretically, I could scan and embed a picture of it. However, as the radiologist’s report spelled out that my brain was...
Write About Memories: It’s Therapeutic!
There are plenty of unselfish reasons to write about memories, but there’s nothing wrong with doing it simply for yourself. You can write about memories to preserve your stories while memory serves, for the joy of writing,...
Leap of Faith: How to Practice
"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...
How to Use Pinterest to Share Memories
Already using Pinterest? Skip down to "How to Use Pinterest to Share Memories" New to Pinterest? Keep reading. What is Pinterest? It's hard to know how to use Pinterest if you don't know what it is. According to...
April Showers Scrapbook Layout
Scrapbook pages are a great way to memorialize special moments and events. Today's post describes preserving the love and excitement involved in welcoming a new family member, as well as for conveying the excitement and...
Here – Five Minute Friday
#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,...
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