Year: 2019

Native American Heritage Month Research Ideas

As this month highlights Native American ancestry, I became interested in many and varied resources I could find.

Google is your friend

According to Wikipedia, Google.com is the most visited website in the world. In this article, Jim provides three tips to enable you to do more effective searches and craft your search to get more specific results.

Quarterly Digitization Project Completed

The Dallas Genealogical Society published a Quarterly journal from the inception of the society in 1955 through 1994. These publications contain a wealth of information about the early history of…
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Newsletter and Website Recognized by TSGS

Congratulations to our Newsletter and Website teams for being recognized as being among the best in the state at this year’s Texas State Genealogical Society conference in Houston!

Private Voices, Civil War Letters Online

I was listening to a rebroadcast of an NPR Way With Words podcast recently. The hosts mentioned the website Private Voices by linguists Michael Ellis and the late Michael Montgomery and historian Stephen Berry.

DNA at RootsTech

RootsTech, the largest genealogy conference, just finished the first London event.

And the survey said…

One encouraging message is that we are continuing to provide you the content that enables you to learn from and enjoy our seminars.

Teresa Devine

The Importance of Continuing Education for Professional Genealogists

Genealogy is experiencing an evolution. Many of us began our family history journeys before online research and DNA testing existed.

Dedication of the Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Genealogy Collection

Celebrate the legacy of Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck at the Dallas Public Library in a ceremony dedicating the Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Genealogy Collection

Exploring ConferenceKeeper.org

It’s a no brainer that you will put the DGS annual seminars in your genealogy educational event calendar first; but how do you find out about other worthwhile conferences you would like to attend?