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 with Narrative and Scene in Your Scrapbook Page
By Debbie Hodge, originally posted on 24 March 2010. (Re-posted with permission) Narrative tells and summarizes while a scene puts the story of the page right on the stage, with concrete details, movements, and even...
Captioning the Past: Using Photo Captions to Tell Stories
Scrapbookers have taken the concept of photo captions to a whole other level. Whereas most writers and bloggers don’t have the time to literally take a page (or layout) from their books, there’s no arguing that a creative...
What Font Are You? Choosing a Font
Who me? It depends. Choosing a Font What font I use depends on what I’m doing and what I’m trying to communicate. Whether I’m crafting or writing (which technically is also a craft), I’m communicating. There’s a lot of...
Home–A Five Minute Friday Post
Today's #FiveMinuteFridayPrompt: Home Though I've lived as long in my current house as the one I grew up in, my childhood home hasn't been replaced. It's in another state, fourteen hours away, and houses strangers. The...
How to Write About a Friend
Writing about family members seems to come naturally, but many family history and memory writers struggle with how to write about a friend. Before we look at the how, let's look at why it's more than appropriate to write...
Handwritten Memories Matter in the Digital World
Do handwritten memories have a place in the digital world? Of course they do! Writing your memories down by hand can be even more therapeutic than typing them. Plus, handwritten memories are apt to be particularly valued by...
Blogging Your Memories: To Blog or Not to Blog?
Varying Communication Styles In her article, A Company Divided: Bridging the Generation Gap at Work Through the Power of Communication, Bea Fields summarizes communications styles by Use of technology in communication, as a...
Where to Find Historical Images to Illustrate Your Writing
Knowing where to find historical images can make us all better storytellers. They give stories a visual context words alone might not convey. That helps readers digest and understand your stories. (See also Why Context...
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