The Tama County Tracers Genealogical Society was organized in November 1976 and is a chapter of the Iowa State Genealogical Society. The local Society holds a monthly meeting the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM at the Museum. The Society members strive to learn about and preserve the history of Tama County and surrounding areas for current and future patrons. The members copy and index and make available many local records and old newspapers. They also publish a quarterly newsletter which is very informative and includes reports of their current projects and findings, including the graves registration project.

The current collection includes:

• Newspaper Collection
  1. Toledo Chronicle from 1874 to present
  2. Tama News Herald
• Manuscript Collection
  1. Personal papers and records of organizatoins
  2. School records
  3. Business records
  4. Diaries
  5. Letters
  6. Account books
  7. Unpublished materials
• Genealogy Collection
  1. County Histories of all Iowa Counties
  2. Centennial Publications
  3. Telephone Directories
  4. Census information
  5. Cemetery Records
  6. Atlases
  7. Plat V Books
  8. Local Obituary Index from 1874 to 1972
• Census
  2. 1880 and 1900 census soundex
  3. State Census 1856, 1885, 1895, 1915, 1925
  4. accelerated Census index for some years
  5. 1850 Census of Ohio
• County Records
  1. 85 rolls of microfilms of early Tama County vital records.
  2. Mortuary records
  3. Military Records
  4. Land, Probate and Tax Records of Tama County
• to New York 1820-1897
• to Baltimore 1820-1897 (soundex)
• New Orleans prior to 1900
• 41 Volumes of Germans to America (1850 forward)
• Immigrants Bound from Bremen to New York 1847-1871
• 5 volumes of Wuerttemburg Immigration Index
• 5 volumes of Czech Immigration Passenger Lists
• Records of CD Rom
  1. Early marriage records of many eastern States
  2. 1860 census for 11 Eastern States
  3. 1880 census for Chicago and Cook County, Ill
  4. Social Security Death Index for US