Category: Dallas Public Library

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.

My IGHR Experience

In March I applied for, and was granted, the 2022 Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Scholarship to attend The Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) Conference, which was held in July.

Annual Family Month Celebration 2022

Mark your calendars for Friday, October 21, 2022! The Dallas Public Library and Dallas Genealogical Society are pleased to bring back our annual in-person Family History Month Celebration on the 8th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.

Dallas Public Library welcomes 59 new books

The Dallas Public Library Genealogy & History Division got an early holiday surprise from our Dallas Genealogical Society supporters.

Genealogical Resources in the Dallas History & Archives Division of the Dallas Public Library

The Genealogy Collection on the 8th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is world class, but did you know that just one floor below, the Dallas History & Archives Division has many different resources that are also useful in local genealogical research?

Upcoming programs at the Dallas Public Library

While Dallas Public Library staff is eager to get back to “normal times,” we are excited to continue our bi-weekly online genealogy programs into Fall 2021.

New Books Gifted to the Dallas Public Library

Start your new to-do list! Generous DGS members funded an end-of-year holiday gift of three books to the Genealogy division in the Dallas Central Library.

Celebrate the holidays with a gift to the Dallas Public Library

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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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