New Tools in the Ancestry Tree

REGISTRATION NOW OPENFOR BEGINNING GENEALOGY CLASS Gain the skills you need to research your family’s story by joining this fun, online, interactive class. This class includes four weekly sessions online with a fifth, optional session in person at the SGS library. The class covers how to successfully conduct, organize, and record research for your genealogy. How…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society General Membership Meeting Tuesday, Oct 11th at 6:30 pm Hybrid at the Tacoma Family History Center and Via Zoom   With the holidays coming up and families gathering, here’s a timely topic “Grandma Said What? Gathering and Verifying your Family’s Oral History.” Our presenter is Sara Cochran of The Skeleton Whisperer,…

Tuesday, August 27, Starting at 7:00 pm via Zoom Join us as we discuss our DNA Research, and try to follow our plans, using Diahan Southard’s You DNA Guide to chart our course.  This book is available from the author, the publishers, Amazon, or perhaps through your local public library or via Inter-Library Loan. Check WorldCat to see what…

Archives fire in the 1970s. Tina offers ways to locate copies of peripheral federal military records and provides solutions for recreating some of the lost history in these “fire” records by using local government documents, newspapers, service organization memberships and base records.  Tina Beaird is the owner of Tamarack Genealogy and is a Genealogy &…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group Meeting Tuesday, November 22 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Please join us as we begin our discussion of the book Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne. This month we will cover the first two chapters.  The book is available from the publishers, The…

The Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. TPCGS DNA Special Interest Group  Tuesday, June 28 at 7:00 pm PDT via Zoom Please join us as we discuss the use of DNA in genealogy. We will be discussing The Leeds Method of Clustering Matches. More information can be found here: https://www.danaleeds.com/the-leeds-method/…