When Your Ancestor’s Possessions Tell A Story
The political leanings and beliefs of our ancestors can be interesting to study – and perhaps unexpectedly so.
The political leanings and beliefs of our ancestors can be interesting to study – and perhaps unexpectedly so.
In 2011, I joined 3000 others in Salt Lake City for the first RootsTech conference.
Genealogy can be approached in a variety of ways. Some seek to identify as many of their fore-bears as possible.
A fun and informative tool on the Texas General Land Office website is the Texas Hidden History map viewer.
DGS usually holds its annual awards meeting and holiday lunch on the second weekend of December in competition with the Dallas Marathon. The DGS Board had already decided to reschedule…
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It’s the season for gift-giving, and what better way to celebrate than giving your friends and family a genealogy gift?
The National Park Service (NPS) website to the Palo Alto Battlefield reveals links to the U.S.–Mexican War. The National Historic Park is located in Brownsville, Texas.
The Christmas story will be one of the most widely read texts in the world today, and genealogists are a few of the people who actually take time to look at all the “begats” set forth in the Scriptures.
Artifact DNA is the DNA that can be found on the artifacts of people’s lives.
September 17th, 2020 was this year’s North Texas Giving Day. DGS members and friends generously gave a total of $1,724!