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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Mystery Book Club October 2025
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Mystery Book Club
Saturday, October 18, starting at 4:00 pm via Zoom
Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, Gold and Gunslingers by Susan Finlay.
More information at:
Amazon: Gold and Gunslingers
TPCGS Book Club Zoom Meeting
Every month on the Third Sat beginning at 4:00 PM Pacific Time
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society October 2025 Legacy Family Tree SIG
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting
Tuesday, October 7, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm virtual via Zoom
This month we will be reviewing a handful of short but useful free Legacy videos.
We meet monthly to share tips & tricks, problems & solutions. Sometimes we will watch videos or share our screens to aide in learning more about using Legacy Family Tree software.
Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in the learning. If you are just thinking about trying Legacy for the first time, you’ve been using it for a year or two or you are an old pro with many years of experience using Legacy this is the group for you. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please send them in.
We look forward to meeting with you, every month on the First Tuesday at 7:00 PM Pacific Time
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society October 2025 Writing Family History
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Writing Family History
Wednesday, October 9, 2025, starting at 7:00 PM via Zoom
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 mix of presentations, writing exercises, and peer reviews to help members make progress in their projects.
Meeting invite with links in file attached below
Date & Time: Every month on the Second Wednesday, starting at 7:00 PM Pacific Time
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Italian Interest Group of the Eastside Genealogical Society Italian Military Records
| Italian Interest Group (IIG)October 2025 Meeting |
| You will get a reminder email with the same Zoom meeting link on October 10th and 17th. |
| Description: This presentation will cover the wealth of genealogical information available in Italian military records, which have existed since Italian unification in the 19th century and in some places as far back as 1792. The records discussed will include conscription lists (Liste di Leva) detailing biographical and physical information for all eligible males, and military service files (Fogli Matricolari) tracking a soldier’s service history, promotions, and assignments. Additionally, four other lesser-known Italian military records will be covered. Since these records are organized by military district and province rather than by town, they are especially useful for tracing ancestors whose specific hometown is unknown. The Presentation will guide researchers on accessing these records, whether by requesting them from a provincial State Archive (Archivio di Stato) in Italy, searching digitized records on sites like FamilySearch or Portale Antenati, or understanding the location of military archives based on the time period.” |
 Speaker Bio: Joel Cole was born and raised in Padova, Italy. He has been involved with Italian Family History for over 30 years. He accompanied his father Trafford for his first genealogical research in Maniago, Italy, when he was 15 and since then he has been fascinated by family history. He has worked as a researcher for over 25 years, visiting almost every State Archive in Italy and almost 1,000 parish archives. He is familiar with paleography having taken several classes in Italy, and with Latin documents, having studied it for over 10 years. Joel has presented in many international genealogical conferences about Italian Family History and has worked for years for private companies performing research in all of Italy, consulting Civil records, Parish and Diocesan Catholic records, Notary records and many more sources. In 2015 he moved to Utah covering several roles for FamilySearch. He is currently the content strategist for Southern Europe, including Italy. Joel’s research specialties are: Italy, Southern Switzerland and Istria-Croatia. Expert at deciphering ancient Italian and Latin documents. |
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society September DNA SIG Meeting
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday, Sept 23, Starting at 7:00 pm via Zoom
We will discuss GedMatch and their offerings.
Download: 1745378587_DNASIGMeetingInvite.pdf
Calendar reminder: TPCGS DNA Special Interest Group Meeting
Every month on the Fourth Tuesday beginning at 7:00 PM Pacific Time
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German Interest Group of the Eastside Genealogical Society Germans to America’s Midwest 1848-1900
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society September Mystery Book Club
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Mystery Book Club
Saturday, September 20, starting at 4:00 pm via Zoom
Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, The Murder of Rhoda Jones, the third book in the Home to Beulah series by Claudia C. Breland.
More information at:
Amazon: The Murder of Rhoda Jones
TPCGS Book Club Zoom Meeting
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Writing Family History September 2025
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Writing Family History
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, starting at 7:00 PM via Zoom
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 mix of presentations, writing exercises, and peer reviews to help members make progress in their projects.
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Italian Interest Group of the Eastside Genealogical Society Free Webinar Direct from Italy
 “On Food and Fascism” |
| Description: Karima Moyer-Nocchi will give a lecture based on her book: Chewing the Fat – An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita. This highly engaging and visually driven presentation will examine the ways in which the politics of the fascist era (1922-1943) influenced the Italian culinary identity from a socio-cultural perspective and the role it played in the conceptual development of Italian cuisine as we know it today. The lecture will explore the tenets of Oral History in general and then looks specifically at how this method of data collection opens a unique window onto food history research. Moyer-Nocchi analyzes the notion of “authenticity” and reveals how some of the best-loved myths of Italian food are part of an invented set of traditions. That view is balanced through a closer look at how traditions, invented or otherwise, play an important part in societal healing and cultural progression in Italy. The presentation will conclude with a performance of selected excerpts from the book. |
| ZOOM Meeting When: 20-Sep-2025, Saturday Time: 10:00 AM (PDT) ***** SPECIAL TIME ***** Presenter: Karima Moyer-Nocchi |
 Speaker Bio: Karima Moyer-Nocchi is a noted culinary historian specializing in Italian cuisine. In her work, she reconstructs histories through a culinary lens, with an eye on myth busting, evident in her acclaimed publications “Chewing the Fat – An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita” and “The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome“. Her upcoming book is “An Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese from Ancient Rome to Modern America” for Columbia University Press for which she was an ICJS Fellow at the Jefferson Foundation in Monticello and a Smithsonian Fellow at the National Museum of American History. An advocate for experiential learning, she encourages “hands-on history” as reflected in her popular Instagram account: @historicalitalianfood and website: theeternaltable.com. Born and educated in the United States, Moyer-Nocchi has made Italy her home since 1990. She teaches in the Modern Languages department at the University of Siena and currently resides in Umbria. Link to “Chewing the Fat” book: the link. |
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