This month's presentation: Colleen Robledo Greene will be presenting: "Capturing their Stories: Best Practices for Recording Family History Interviews" 

 

Family history interviews are invaluable sources for our genealogy research that can also be converted into meaningful keepsake gifts for family. Explore tips and free or inexpensive tools to use with your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to capture family interviews in-person or from afar via Zoom. Learn best practices for planning and directing your interviews.

 

As we move into the holiday season we can use the methods and tools Colleen talks about to capture our own family stories. 

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

 

Please join us as we discuss a fictional genealogical book, Scourge of the Skua, the fifth book in the Esme Quentin series, by Wendy Percival. 

 

More information at: 

Amazon: Scourge of the Skua

 

This book may also be available in print from various book stores or libraries.

 

Meeting Invite with Links in file attached below.

Discussion starter topic Proposed changes to: TPCGS ByLaws, Increase of Membership Fees, and Need to fill Open Board Member Positions. 

 

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 of each person that attends and contributes to the conversations. This is your chance to celebrate the breaking down of a brick wall in your research, or ask questions of others that can help you find records or relatives. Everyone, members and guests are welcome and encouraged to attend and participate.

 

Meeting invite with links in file attached below.

Preserve your family history! Bring 30 - 50 of your old photos and documents to be scanned along with a USB drive to store the images on. TPCGS members will be on-hand to scan them for you while you visit and enjoy some treats.

 

Loose photos and documents without staples, 8-1/2" X 14" will scan the quickest and easiest and include the front and back to capture any notes that may be written. For photos still in an album the page will be scanned and the front of individual photos scanned best as possible without removing the photos from the album page. Multi page documents with staples cannot be run through a document scanner due to risk of damage to documents and scanner. TPCGS will not remove staples/bindings from documents or photos from albums to avoid possible damage to the documents or photos. 

 

Free underground parking is available.

 

University Place Library

3609 Market Place West

Suite 100

University Place, WA 98466