The publication of four huge new collections of names and stories on MyHeritage, extracted from newspaper pages on OldNews.com. The collections contain 658 million records from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; 998 million records from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska; 1 billion records from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and…

NOVEMBER – EARLY DECEMBER 2022 MEETINGS & EVENTS Be in the know! Receive notices for our virtual meetings, as well as the latest genealogy news and tips, by subscribing (free) to the online group at https://skcgs.groups.io Skcgs.groups.io is the SKCGS online discussion and collaboration arena where: PROGRAM UPDATES Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 6:30pm PTSKCGS Board of Directors…

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…

I’m delighted to share our largest historical record collection update yet: 74 collections with 130 million records! We’ve been growing our content team and working hard to ramp up the pace of historical record collection publications since the beginning of the year. These collections include birth, marriage, death, military, wills, newspapers, immigration, civil, and probate records…

Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting Sep 6th, 2022, 7:00 pm This week we will begin reviewing a medium length video presented by Daniel Horowitz that is free and available from the Legacy Family Tree Webinars site.  The direct link to the video is listed below its title: Top 10 Secrets to Using MyHeritage Please take…

Saturday, July 8th  — 10:00am.  The Clallam County Genealogical Society will present Claire Smith.  Her topic:  Getting Unstuck: Working Through Research Problems. Claire Smith is a Professional Genealogist with certificates from Boston University, the University of Washington, and the ProGen Professional Genealogy Study Group.   She is a wizard at presenting an organized approach for finding missing…