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Irving Archives – Irving, Dallas County, Texas

The Irving Archives, established in 1981, is a part of the city’s Records Management Division within the City Secretary’s Office.

The Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Scholarship Awardee for 2019

On December 8, 2018, the Dallas Genealogical Society announced several donations to the Genealogy Section of the J Erik Jonsson Central Library at their annual Awards Luncheon.

DGS gift inspires additional donation to Dallas Public Library

Upon learning of the Dallas Genealogical Society’s donation of 157 Hispanic genealogy books for the Dallas Public Library’s Genealogy collection, the Rios Family has been inspired to match this gift.

DGS Receives Digitization Grant

We will be working with University of North Texas library staff to make our 2011 and 2012 Journals available on the Portal To Texas History.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Project

To help bring thousands of records to light, the Freedmen’s Bureau Project was created as a set of partnerships between FamilySearch International and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),…
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Digitizing Your Old Slides

This article has some interesting and innovative ideas on how you can digitize your old slides:

Honor Your Ancestors

As part of that celebration, we sponsored a program to honor our ancestors by donating books to the Dallas Public Library, Genealogy Section. Here are the results.