Presenter: Jan Edwards

A presentation by Bernard N. Meisner Learn how to import search results from Web sites into spreadsheets, use the spreadsheet’s built-in tools to format and manipulate the data, and process them to investigate possible group migrations and determine family relationships.  Also learn how to sort dates of the form 10 May 1869, and overcome Excel’s…
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Presenter: Ari Wilkins, Dallas Public Library Recreating communities can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. This presentation will demonstrate ways to combine data from census records, Sanborn maps, and city directories.

Presenter: Nancy Maxwell

Recreating neighborhoods can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. Join us as Ari Wilkins – genealogist, teacher, researcher and specialist in African American research – explains how to use these often overlooked collections of historical information to build a more complete picture of your ancestor’s life. Join the Mesquite Historical…
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Presented by Larry McCarty The process and techniques used for researching any ethnic group’s family history are much the same. You will, however, find challenges and roadblocks that are more common when researching African American Ancestry. Mr McCarty will present tips, tools, guidelines to overcome these challenges. He will use them to demonstrate the success…
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Jim Schwartz Annual Lecture Series