Category: Digitizing & Indexing

From the President: Our Portal Partnership

Our society recently reached a significant milestone on the Portal to Texas History.

DGS Donates $500 For Digitization Effort

The DGS board recently donated the funds to the Tarrant County Black Historical & Genealogical Society in support of their digitization project.

The Heritage Lab at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library

If you are like most genealogical researchers, your family history collection include photos, negatives, home movies (such as VHS, 8mm, super 8, other video cassettes), audio cassettes, 35mm slides, or documents?

Recycling Our Records

Hopefully you know that we have been busy indexing articles in our Journals, Quarterlies and Newsletters and linking each article to the appropriate image on the Portal to Texas History.

DGS Newsletters now on the Portal To Texas History

Our collection of newsletters published between 1976 and 2015 has been digitized and is now available on the University of North Texas Portal to Texas History.

Quarterly Digitization Project Completed

The Dallas Genealogical Society published a Quarterly journal from the inception of the society in 1955 through 1994. These publications contain a wealth of information about the early history of…
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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: