As the Tacoma Family History Center began holding focus group meetings, they noticed that there were far fewer records available in Tacoma for people with African American ancestors. In order to help more people see their family, we have gathered data from local records into google sheets and volunteers can help add these individuals to the Family Tree. If you want to do more, you can use Family Search hints to add more information for each family and start to connect them to other families on the Family Tree.
These local records include territorial census records, birth and death records, school registrations, voter registrations, cemetery records, land records, and even early Tacoma jail records. These early records track many aspects of the lives of those new to Tacoma when the city was newly created. There are approximately 35,000 records! They paint a picture of what old Tacoma was really like.
We hope you will enjoy participating in this project You make a real difference! Click on this link to see and choose a record to work on. Also included are directions to help you get started. How many names can you do?