Month: November 2022

Our 2022 Genealogical Wish List (from our DGS Board & Publication Volunteers)

Looking for gifts for the genealogists in your life? We asked our board and some of our volunteers to give us their holiday suggestions, and there are some pretty challenging options for their family and friends to fulfill.

Our Upcoming 2023 Spring Seminar: The Ever-Present Law

As Judy Russell, our presenter for our April 22nd 2023 Spring Seminar, points out, following the law can be the key to finding our ancestors and learning the details of their lives.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

This summer DGS participated in a North Texas Giving Day campaign to benefit Dallas Public Library patrons.

Dallas Public Library Receives Dallas Genealogical Society’s Fall 2022 Book Donations

The Genealogy & History Division of the Dallas Public Library was pleased to receive over $1,600 worth of new books from DGS for our genealogy collection.

2023 Writing Contest: Families on the Move – how they got from here to there (or there to here)

For the DGS 2023 Writing Contest, we’d like to hear how your family got from here to there, or there to here.

Out of the Attic: Travis Middle School Bands – A Winter Concert, December 15, 1992

School records from the past can be a challenge to find. However, if you have a student currently enrolled, the school’s website can provide a wealth of information about the student’s academic experience.

William Lafayette Cannon: A Man Changed by War

My great-great-great-great grandfather, William Lafayette Cannon, was of Scottish descent.

Battles, Military and Domestic: The Garrison–Husband Family

Among the early settlers of Union County, Iowa was a family of our ancestors who had a difficult life.