Welcome to our website!

 
Our purpose is to stimulate a popular interest in family history, to seek genealogical and historical knowledge, to preserve and perpetuate the records of our ancestors, to aid and encourage individual members as well as non-members in compiling their family histories, and to collect and publish genealogical source material. 

Meeting Info
TPCGS monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month, September through June. During COVID or inclement weather, meetings are held virtually utilizing the Zoom platform. The membership meetings are now in person as well; the location for each meeting will be on the website, and included in the email invitations that are sent to members before the meetings. The Meetings begin at 6:15 pm with a brief business meeting. Then the main presentation starts at 6:30.  
Guests are always welcome! 

 
This year's Virtual Spring Seminar is now over.
Our Speakers, Cyndi Ingle & Cari Taplin, did an excellent job.
Now it it time to prepare for the future.
If you have any ideas, please send them to [email protected].
 

Featured Website:
Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives: https://www.ggarchives.com/
Ocean Travel, Military, and Immigration Archival Collections
 

 
Haytime
(Photo courtesy of Jean Findlay)

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
– Michael Crichton
 

 
Do you have historical photographs of the Tacoma-Pierce County area?
Would you like to see them on our website? If so, please send an email to [email protected].
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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October 3
7:00 pm
TPCGS Board Meeting
Are you curious about what goes on at the board meetings and can't wait for the meeting minutes to be posted to the forum? ...

October 8
6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
TPCGS Educational Program
This month our educational program will be presented by Claudia C. Breland. Her presentation will be "Ancestry Pro Tools: Not Just for Professionals".  Looking at ...

October 9
7:00 pm
Writing Family History
The Writing Family History Special Interest Group (WFH-SIG) supports TPCGS members in documenting, writing, and preserving their family histories—formally or informally. Monthly meetings will provide a ...

October 10
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Genealogy Help Desk - Wheelock Branch, Tacoma Public Library
Genealogy Help Desk with assistence provided by members of Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society. Come out and help the community learn genealogy by sharing your ...

October 15
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Genealogy Chat
This is a monthly opportunity to connect with others and talk about anything and everything genealogical. The value of this meeting increases with the participation ...
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