Tucson Arizona West FamilySearch Center

= The Center OPEN! Please bring your flash drive! =

===The Tucson Arizona West Family History Center is located at the Tucson West Stake Center. It serves northwestern Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana, and Picture Rocks. It includes a collection of about 5000 books useful for genealogy research in the United States and Europe, as well as a variety of journals from genealogical societies. Note that there is no charge for using any of the available resources or center services.===

Individual Consulting

 * Center staff are available for personal consulting with no appointment needed

====Have a church organization and community organization that would like to reserve off-hour time please sign-up here Patrons Scheduling Tucson Arizona  Family History Center====

Staff Research Specialties
US Industrial and Agricultural Census Schedules, available on Wednesday and Saturdays

Links
Online Genealogy Records by Location
 * FamilySearch Research Wiki: What It Can Do For You!: A comprehensive video presentation explaining the Wiki, navigating it, and some especially useful pages. Case studies demonstrate using the Wiki for genealogical research. Editing and adding articles to the Wiki are covered.

Center Contacts and Hours
Location &amp; Map:


 * 3530 W Magee, Tucson, AZ 85741 USA
 * From Ina Road go north on Thornydale about one mile to Magee Road. Turn east on Magee, continue one quarter mile to the church building on the left.
 * Take the second entrance on the east side of the building.
 * The Family Search Center is entered through the small door just to the left of the main east entrance of the building.
 * Location Map

Contact Us: E-mail: [mailto:az_tucsonwest@familyhistorymail.org az_tucsonwest@familyhistorymail.org]

Center Hours:


 * Tuesday: 9AM to 6PM
 * Wednesday: 9AM to 6PM
 * Friday 9AM to 6PM


 * Saturday: 9AM to 1PM

Holiday and Summer Break Schedule:


 * Closed for Summer Break in June
 * Closed for Thanksgiving, Monday, 22 November 2021 - Saturday, 27 November 2021
 * Closed for Christmas, from Monday, 20 December 2021 - Saturday, 1 January 2022


 * Closed for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints General Conference - April 6 and October 2 (Saturdays)
 * Closed for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints General Conference - April 6 and October 2 (Saturdays)

Calendar and Events
Want to find all the genealogy events in the Arizona area? Check out this link.

Upcoming Events
= Southern Arizona Genealogy Society Meeting = Thu Jun 17th

Currently Virtual

1:00-3:00 pm Mountain Standard Time

GVGS meets October through April, from 1:00-3:00PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Meetings are currently virtual, but otherwise held at the Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley, AZ. Check the Calendar listing on our website for information on upcoming programs and guest speakers.

More information at https://azsags.org/

= Pima County Genealogy Society Meeting = Sat Jun 19th

Online Via Zoom

Thomas MacEntee- "Countdown to the 1950 Census and a Case Study: The Mysterious Death of Anna T McPhillips"

PCGS meets the 3rd Saturday of every month (except July and December) from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, currently via Zoom.

(When in-person, meetings are held at the Operations Division Midtown, Hardesty Multi-Service Center, 1100 S. Alvernon, Tucson, AZ (corner of 22nd St. & Alvernon). Parking is free.)

The first half of our meeting includes a program on a genealogy topic of general interest, followed by a featured guest speaker educational program. Check the Calendar section of our website for information on upcoming programs and guest speakers.

More information at http://azpimagensoc.org

= Southern Arizona Genealogy Society Meeting = Thu Jul 15th

Currently Virtual

1:00-3:00 pm Mountain Standard Time

GVGS meets October through April, from 1:00-3:00PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Meetings are currently virtual, but otherwise held at the Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley, AZ. Check the Calendar listing on our website for information on upcoming programs and guest speakers.

More information at https://azsags.org/

= Pima County Genealogy Society Meeting = Sat Jul 17th

Online Via Zoom

PCGS meets the 3rd Saturday of every month (except July and December) from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, currently via Zoom.

(When in-person, meetings are held at the Operations Division Midtown, Hardesty Multi-Service Center, 1100 S. Alvernon, Tucson, AZ (corner of 22nd St. & Alvernon). Parking is free.)

The first half of our meeting includes a program on a genealogy topic of general interest, followed by a featured guest speaker educational program. Check the Calendar section of our website for information on upcoming programs and guest speakers.

More information at http://azpimagensoc.org

Center Resources
We have 9 computers, 2 scanners, and 2 microfilm and microfiche readers.




 * FamilySearch Catalog. Access to the microfilm holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake Internet access is available at the library.
 * We have extensive hardbound collections for North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as well as a few New England collections.

Databases and Software

 * FHC Portal: This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. The resources currently include:
 * 19th Century British Library Newspapers digital archive – Searchable database of the British Library's newspaper holdings with a complete run of 48 national and regional Victorian British newspapers for the 19th century (from 1800 to 1900)
 * Alexander Street Press - Focused on records from the American Civil War. Searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. Contains approximately 100,000 indexed pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs. Includes images, photographs, posters, and ephemera
 * Ancestry.com – Searchable collections of records from around the world, including immigration, census, voter, vital, and military records; newspapers and periodicals; family trees; photos and images; directories, maps, court, land, wills and financial records, stories, memories, and histories; and detailed records about births, marriages, deaths, land ownership
 * ArkivDigital Online – Images of Swedish Church Records and other historical records. Indexed by locality
 * Find My Past – Searchable collections of records from the United Kingdom and Ireland, including the 1911 British Census. (Not all of the content from Find My Past is available in family history centers)
 * Fold3 – Search or browse millions of historical documents and photos, focused on military records and stories
 * Heritage Quest Online – Heritage Quest Online database is a collection of material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. U.S. federal census images from 1790, books, periodicals, Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Freedman’s Bank records
 * Historic Map Works Library Edition - Digital map collections available, with high-resolution, full color historic and antique maps
 * Legacy Stories - Resource for storing and publishing online family history information in text, audio, and multi-media formats
 * Newspapers.com - The largest online newspaper archive and has 15,900+ newspapers from the 1700s–2000s. Millions of additional pages added every month
 * Paper Trail – Provides access to 19th-century westward American migration documents
 * World Vital Records – Access to birth, marriage, and death records; Social Security Death Index; family trees; census records; immigration records; court, land, and probate records; military records directory lists; newspapers, family histories, reference materials, biographies, wills, gravestone photos, ship manifests, map collections, and yearbook collections

Hardware and Equipment

 * Nine computers with internet access, each with dual monitors
 * One microfilm scanner - bring a USB flash drive to store your digitized documents
 * Two microfilm readers
 * Two scanners for digitizing photographs, slides, negatives, and documents - bring an USB flash drive to store your digitized documents
 * Wireless access available upon request.