2005-02 | Volume 29, Number 2, Issue 253 (February)

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Title: Dallas Genealogical Society Newsletter

Created: February 2005

Editor: Happi McQuirk

• Inside This Issue

Articles:

CONTENTS

• One if by land…two if by sea, Or lend me your cell phone by Shirley Stertz Hawn
• President's column
• Welcome to our new members
• Happenings around DPL's 8th Floor volunteer desk
• Spring 2005 Lecture Series
  • 5 Feb 2005, Claire Mire Bettag, CGRS, CGL, Genealogy Sources and Methods
  • 5 Mar 2005, Emily Croom, BA and MA (history), BA (music), Unpuzzling Your Past
  • 2 Apr 2005, Dr. Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, Five Ways to Prove Who Your Ancestor Was
• Lost but not forgotten
  • Life member, William Foster Jacoby, Jr.
• 2005 DGS Society Programs
  • General meetings
    • February: William "Bill" Dow, Jr. - My Liles Who Fell Through The Cracks
    • March: Glenn Kinkade - Indirect Evidence
  • African American Genealogy Interest Group AAGIG
  • Computer Interest Group CIG
• Spanish Heritage
• DGS Internet Workshops
• Brookhaven College for Spring 2005
• Richland College for Spring 2005
• Writing Awards Presentations
  • Division I: Family history
    • Dwight Albert Sharpe: Felix Benedict Dixon, A San Augustine County Texas Pioneer and a Republic of Texas Citizen
  • Division II: Articles or books of historical or genealogical interest
    • First place: Terri Bradshaw O'Neill: William Bradshaw of Orange and Alamance Counties, North Carolina: A Case Study
    • Honorable Mention: Rosemary M. Schoolfield: Lewis McClain, Georgia Pioneer–An Overview
  • Division III: Family stories, memories, or character sketches
    • First Place: Anna Rose Barry: Meet the Barry Family in Rosita, Colorado
    • Honorable Mention: Lela Evans: Mitchel Wilburn McCarley
  • Division IV: Book of compiled material: church, court, census, cemetery–abstracted from original records
    • First Place: Judy Allen Knight: Historic W.V.S. Allen Cemetery, Tarrant County, Texas
    • Honorable Mention: Alan Miller: Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children, Apprentices from 1784 to 1902
    • Honorable Mention: Ed Millis: Trinity Farm and El Rancho Grande Cemetery Burials
    • Honorable Mention: Barbara Kerfoot Smyth Turner: Letters from Home: The Letters and Lives of Ludlow St. Claire Smyth and Lucie Webb Laws
    • Honorable Mention: Laurie G. Wharton: Diaries of S. S. Wright of New Haven, Vermont, Written in the Vermont Register & Farmers' Almanacs, 1857-1899
• DNA Tests Available at Discount
• Volunteers Needed (WWI draft records)
• Idonna Coffelt received gold medal at 30th Annual Exhibition of the San Antonio Watercolor Group
• Local History & Genealogical Society Cooperating with the Dallas Public Library (1955 Volume 1 Issue 1 newsletter)
• John Philip Sousa, American Composer, Conductor & Patriot (reprinted from Somos Primos newsletter)
• New acquisitions in genealogy by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
• Regional and National Events
  • Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
  • Duncanville Genealogical Society (2)
  • Lewisville Library
  • McKinney Memorial Library
  • Family Tree Maker Workshop (2)
  • Mid-Cities Genealogical Society
  • Lancaster Genealogical Society
  • Collin County Genealogical Society (2)
  • HOGAR de Dallas
  • Hot Springs Village Genealogical Society, Arkansas
  • Brookhaven College
  • Regional Contacts
• New publication schedule for The Dallas Journal
• From our readers
• DGS Lecture Series registration form
• General information
• DGS Calendar of Events

Publisher: Dallas Genealogical Society

Format: Paper; Number of Pages: 20; Height (Inches): 11; Width (Inches): 8.5; Binding Type: Stapled;

Language: English

Rights Holder: Copyright – Dallas Genealogical Society