Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Meeting Tues May 10th at 6:30 pm The Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society invites you to attend our May meeting.At approximately 7pm, Jessica Jones, Reference Archivist for the Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Branch, will present an introduction to the Puget Sound Regional Archives. She will also give an overview of…
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Book Club Meeting May 21st 3:00 pm The Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Book Club invites you to attend our May meeting. Please join us as we discuss a genealogical murder mystery. Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird is an older murder mystery from before the advent of genealogical DNA testing. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Henrietta-Who-Calleshire-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B00USNENPC/ We will…
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA SIG Meeting May 24th at 7:00 pm The Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group invites you to attend our May meeting. Please join us as we discuss the use of DNA in genealogy. At this meeting we plan to watch Crista Cowan’s webinar on color-coding your Ancestry…
MissionThe International German Genealogy Partnership’s mission is to facilitate German genealogy research globally as the internationally recognized federation of German genealogy organizations. International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP) conference to be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03 May 2022 – Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Wayne, Indiana has recently been chosen as the host of the International…
We are thrilled to tell you that we’ve passed the half-season point in Season 1 of our podcast, Blast From My Past — available on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Blast From My Past podcast features the incredible true stories of people whose lives were changed by what they discovered through MyHeritage about their family’s pasts — whether it was…
NGS Extends Deadline for Online Registrationfor theNGS 2022 Family History ConferenceRegister Now This year is proving to be a year of transition and for some a time of lingering uncertainty. Therefore, in response to requests from our members, the National Genealogical Society has extended its deadline to register online for its NGS 2022 Family History Conference….
A special Zoom presentation will feature Judy Russell, the “Legal Genealogist”. Dowered or Bound Out: Records of Widows and OrphansWidows and orphans have always had a special place in the law. But it’s not always the place that 21st century researchers might expect. An orphan in the early days wasn’t a child whose parents had died, but rather a…
TIP OF THE WEEK -IN NEED OF TRANSLATION This issue’s tip came out of this month’s Second Saturday Speaker Series presentation by Carolyn Schott. There is a Facebook Group called Genealogical Translations and their purpose is just that, the translation of genealogy documents only. It is a private group so you must ask to join. This group might be the…
by Donna Phillips Lesson for you here: if in yard sales, garage sales, flea markets or thrift stores, you come upon discarded high school or college yearbooks (the older the better), rescue them and contact the folks at e-yearbook. You can check yourself to see if they have or don’t have the ones you just found. …
