Featured Topic: Ari Wilkins from the Dallas Public Library discussing Ante-Bellum Southern Plantation Records

We will be electing the 2016 - 2017 Executive Committee at the business meeting, followed by the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Dallas Genealogical Society!

Join us at 10:30 for light snacks and mingling. The Business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our Educational Presentation around 11:30. Our speaker will be Shirley Sloat.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Our speaker will be Glenn Kinkade, who will be discussing the Perils, Paradoxes and Pitfalls in Probate Records.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Our presentation will be "Finding German Ancestors: Their Information is Not All on the Internet" by Bernard N. Meisner.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Our speaker will be Brandon Murray who will be discussing the newly renovated Dallas History & Archives Division located on the 7th floor of the library.

Our presentation this month is ‘The Texas State Library/Archives and General Land Office at Home and On Site‘ by DGS member Kelvin Meyers.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Our speaker will be Ari Wilkins: her topic is 'Learn how to save money and time by using libraries services and collections to the fullest extent'

This month we will be hearing from DGS member David Passman who will be sharing the results of his research and discussing the use of collateral lines as a research methodology.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. Thatcher Freund, a journalist and memoir writer, will talk about the importance of stories in our lives both to ourselves and to the work we do in researching our family histories, and why it matters so much that we preserve them.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

Our educational presentation, "1890 Census Substitutes: Bridging the Gap", will be made by Bill Buckner from the Waco-McLennan County Library.

Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

The presentation, Black Courage, will be made by Bill Covington, and covers African-Americans serving on both sides of the Revolutionary War.

Our own Jim Thornhill will be discussing what motivated our ancestors to come to America, how travel developed in the United States, focusing on the south, and how we can use that information to identify our ancestors’ migration patterns.

Please note: We're meeting the second Saturday in April. Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around…
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Our speaker is Patti Gillespie who will be speaking on Proving Long-Lost Family the Indirect Way. Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at…
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