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. 

 
Happy Holidays!

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:
David Rumsey Map Collectionhttps://www.davidrumsey.com/
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. 
 

 
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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December 5
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Legacy Family Tree Software SIG Meeting
This month we will finish the Legacy Family Tree video "Sources and Citations Made Simple, Standard, and Powerful" that we started in October.   Zoom ...

December 12
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
TPCGS Christmas Party
Celebrate the holidays at our Christmas Party on Tuesday Dec 12th, More information to come, volunteers to help welcome.

December 16
4:00 pm
TPCGS Book Club
Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, The Last Queen of England by Steve Robinson.   More information at:  Amazon: The Last Queen of England ...

December 19
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 ...

January 16
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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