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! 

Website of the Week:
Legacy Family Tree Webinars: https://familytreewebinars.com/
The aboslute best genealogy bargain out there! Almost every webinar is free to watch for the first week (and some remain free); but members get the added benefit of access to the syllabus materials. And right now, it is their annual Webtember, with fiver webinars every Friday.
 

 
Members of the Still Harbor baseball team included, from left to right, (first row) Jim Corey, Henry Hannum, and Ed Michaelson; (second row, standing) Clarence Michaelson, Francis Nelson, John Moard, Art Anderson, Martin Moard, coach Hador Miller, Carl Carlson, and Art Larson. Clarence and Ed Michaelson were brothers, and Bessie Cammon’s nephews by marriage. Coach Hador Miller had a farm at Still Harbor where he had lived for many years, but he moved away after marriage. Dated about 1935.
(Photo courtesy of Jean Findlay)

 
Heredity
 
I am the family face; 
Flesh perishes, I live on, 
Projecting trait and trace 
Through time to times anon, 
And leaping from place to place 
Over oblivion. 
 
The years-heired feature that can 
In curve and voice and eye 
Despise the human span 
Ofdurance--that is I; 
The eternal thing in man, 
That heeds no call to die. 
 
by Thomas Hardy

 
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 info@tpcgs.org.
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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October 3
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting Tuesday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM   This month we are going to revisit ...

October 10
6:15 pm to 8:00 pm
TPCGS Educational Meeting
One of our favorite speakers will with us virtually tonight following a short meeting. Jill Morelli will be giving us a methodology topic: Friedrich Eiler: ...

October 21
4:00 pm
TPCGS Book Club
Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, Cowards Die Many Times by Peter Hey.   More information at:  WorldCat: Cowards Die Many Times   We ...

October 24
7:00 pm
TPCGS DNA Special Interest Group
We will continue studying Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne. This month we will continue discussing Chapter 7: Incorporating DNA Testing in ...

November 18
4:00 pm
TPCGS Book Club
Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, The Deserter's Tale by Nathan Dylan Goodwin.   More information at:  Amazon: The Deserter's Tale   We will ...
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