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
Vivid-Pix RESTORE Software Product Review
What's all the buzz about Vivid-Pix Restore? Watching the steady stream of traffic lined up at Vivid-Pix’s RootsTech 2020 booth and hearing the endorsements of genealogists I respect, I decided to explore their restoration...
Why You Should Start a Covid-19 Journal and What to Include
Have you started a Covid-19 journal or accumulating your quarantine memories? Here are some reasons you should as well as what you might include. Historians Will Look Back at this Pandemic Have you noticed how many times...
How Legal Context Prevents Misunderstood Family Stories: An Interview with Judy Russell
Legal context is critical to understanding the stories of the past. Without it, readers unaware of the legalities of an earlier time period could easily draw incorrect conclusions about family members’ and ancestors’...
6 Ways to Highlight the Women in your Family Tree When Facts are Few
With a dearth of records about female ancestors, it can be difficult to ferret out stories that highlight the women in your family tree. As Lisa A. Alzo points out in her article Strategies for Finding Female Ancestors for...
The Story of Me: Reflections on RootsTech 2020 (SLC)
As the vibrant purple curtains of the Main Stage close, I reflect on how the 10th anniversary theme “The Story of Me” has influenced how I think of my own story. The story of me is a compilation of my individual...
Rootstech 2020 Day 1 Re-Cap
Retrospective and Looking Forward In the ten-year anniversary, FamilySearch is rewarding those of us that attending year-after-year can remember the awesome keynote speakers we've enjoyed. However, even more hoopla...
Why you Should Write about Both Good AND Bad Sides of Ancestors in your Family Stories
You know who doesn’t strive for perfection? Fiction authors. They know that compelling characters have both good and bad characteristics. Should family historians write about both good and bad sides of ancestors in family...
Last-Minute Tips for RootsTech 2020
Here are some last-minute tips to help you can enjoy RootsTech 2020 to the max, whether you’re at #rootstech in person or #notatrootstech, enjoying the conference from afar. RootsTech 2020 is almost here, y’all! Next week,...
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