Tell your family story the way YOU remember it! Dallas Public Library's mobile Vivid-Pix Memory Station is a place to scan, record and share your family memories. This station has new software which allows you to seamlessly scan or upload multiple images quickly, restore them, and record a story to play over each photo in a digital video.  Learn how to integrate this great technology into your photo and oral history preservation process.

Program: Brick Wall Victories: How I finally found that relative who just wouldn’t be found.

Patti Gillespie presents: Birth to Death and In-Between: Finding, Using, and Integrating Religious Records in the US.

April is Arab American History Month! Genealogy & History Manager Stephanie Bennett is a second generation Arab American and has been research her Arab American roots for over 10 years. Learn how to get started finding more information in U.S. records and repositories about your immigrant ancestors who came from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East.

Mic Barnette, will show what mtDNA is. (Hint: It’s more specialized than the ordinary DNA test most genealogists begin with.)

May is a month for memorializing those who have passed away, particularly U.S. military personnel who died in service. Learn all about cemetery records, specialized databases, and how to locate where a person is buried.

Patti Gillespie presents: Birth to Death and In-Between: Finding, Using, and Integrating Religious Records in the US.

Stacks of old photos. Mounds of loose paper. That one vase that belonged to your great aunt Winifred.

We all have old things that we've kept throughout the years that belonged to our loved ones. Yet, through those years, information has been lost, photos are crumbling and memories have faded. Get advice about caring for YOUR family archives from DPL's Family Archives Librarian Samantha Diaz. Participate in interactive activities to rediscover your family treasures and stories. Attendees will get a take-home kit of archival materials so they can get started preserving their family collections at home.

Author Ron Schwarz will discuss his book, The Quiet Strength of Resilience: A Holocaust Story Spanning Four Generations. It tells the life story of the author's father, Holocaust survivor Charles Schwarz.

Ready to take your family history research to the next level? Tales & Trails, the NGS 2025 Family History Conference, brings you leading speakers, essential education, and amazing networking opportunities with 1000+ friends and colleagues in Louisville, Kentucky.

Registration for the Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR) is open. Held virtually this year, TIGR 2025 takes place June 16-20, 2025.

Join Thomas MacEntee for this live virtual presentation about A Genealogy Do Over.

Join Barbara Coakley as she presents "Branching Out: Researching Collateral Ancestors."

Diana Elder, a professional genealogist with lots of accreditations will present four sessions including AI in Genealogy, Texas Land Grant System, Individuals of the Same Name and Burned Courthouses.

Join Shelley Gayler-Smith as she discusses "Who Wore It Best, Dating Photographs from Clothing."

Get your favorite Dallas Public Library Genealogy & History staff's top ten websites and share your own that have helped you have a breakthrough in your research.

Virginia Ochoa Morrison presents Finding Our Hispanic Ancestors.

Our meeting will be held both in person at the Mesquite Library (Main Branch) at 6:30 PM and also via Zoom. We will first examine the status of the “Full Text Index” test environment in FamilySearch. Then Lisa Louise Cooke will (via prerecorded video) a short primer of key terms with respect to Artificial Intelligence.…
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Get advice about caring for YOUR family archives from DPL's Family Archives Librarian Samantha Diaz. Participate in interactive activities to rediscover your family treasures and stories.