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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur speaker will be Pat Gordon who will discuss Researching Female Ancestors. \nPat Gordon’s interest in genealogy began innocently enough when she decided in the late 1980s to find where her maternal great grandmother was buried in Colorado after dying from tuberculosis. She soon found the answer to that question\, but by then she had other questions that needed answering. And the questions keep coming faster and faster\, much faster than the answers. Since she likes to place her ancestors in social context to their time\, she does more than collect names. She spends a lot of time learning about the history and places in which they lived. In addition to online research\, she spends much time hanging out in courthouses and libraries and considerable time in university archives. \nAs a former newspaper reporter with The Dallas Morning News and recently retired journalism lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington\, she especially finds researching old newspapers a favorite pastime. She served two terms as president and one as vice president of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. \nShe holds a B.A. in Journalism and M.S. in Media Studies. She was an original faculty member of Angelina College Genealogy Conference in Lufkin and continues to be a frequent speaker. She has also presented all-day seminars at various Texas genealogical societies. \n Syllabus\n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-feb2017/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170107T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170107T123000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Note that this month’s meeting will be held in the O’Hara room on the 7th floor. \nJoin us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00\, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. \nBrandon Murray\, a librarian from the Dallas Public Librarian\, will be speaking to us about the collection of materials at the Dallas History & Archives Division. This collection is one of the largest of its kind in the nation:  The holdings span many aspects of the diverse history of not only Dallas and the surrounding area\, but the entire state of Texas. \nAfter Brandon’s talk\, he will take our group on a tour of the newly remodeled floor.  Highlights of the collection and floor include the photo lab\, the digitized collections and Dallas County records\, oral histories\, photographs\, manuscript collection and finding guide and fine books division. \nBrandon Murray has been a librarian at the J Eric Jonssen Library since June\, 2015.  Before that\, from 2012 to 2015\,  he was at Southern Methodist University\, where he created metadata for digitized photographic collections intended for the Central University.  He also posted images and metadata to social media sites including Tumblr\, Flickr and Reddit\, and collaborated with colleagues on creating or modifying cataloging and metadata guidelines.  He was also responsible for proofreading and generating content to promote the Central University Library Digital Collections.  Brandon Murray holds a Master of Library & Information Science degree from Southern Methodist University. \n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-jan2017/
LOCATION:7th Floor – O’Hara Hall – J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161210T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161210T140000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:Annual Awards Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the recently renovated O’Hara Hall on the 7th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Library for our annual Holiday Awards Luncheon on Saturday\, December 10. \nThis event is free for current DGS members and $15 for guests. \nAdvance registration is required: Register Online Now or Print and Mail the Registration Form \nWe could use some help… Volunteer Now! \n \nPROGRAM \n11:30  Registration & Hospitality \n12:00  Catered Luncheon \n1:00  Presentation of Awards \nNOMINATIONS \nVisit our Awards page. There you can nominate people for any of the awards – as well as see who has received awards in the past! \n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/annual-awards-luncheon-2016/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161105T130000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur presentation is “Finding German Ancestors: Their Information is Not All on the Internet” by Bernard N. Meisner\, Ph.D. \nDownload The Handout\nTo locate records about your family in Germany it is essential to determine their home town through an exhaustive search of U.S. records\, since most German records are maintained at the local level (town or parish). Also\, due to wars and boundary changes your family’s records may now be located in another state or country. In this presentation I will review how to identify the home town\, demonstrate the use of finding aids to identify where civil and church records might be located\, and provide links to online resources for correspondence and reading/interpreting German printing and handwriting. \nBernard Meisner\, Ph.D. is a genealogist and lecturer based in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He began researching his family over 25 years ago and enjoys sharing lessons learned from those experiences\, including his mistakes. Although he knew only one grandparent (his maternal grandfather) he has successfully identified all of his great-great grandparents and several triple- and quadruple-great grandparents. He is the president and social media chair of the Mid-Cities Genealogical Society\, and is a member of the National Genealogical Society and the Texas State Genealogical Society. \nBernard recently retired from the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters where he was the Acting Chief of the Science & Technology Services Division. He is certified as a consulting meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society and holds a teaching certificate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the Universities of Texas\, Oklahoma and St. Thomas (Houston). Bernard earned a B.S. in physics/German from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh\, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Hawaii.
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-nov2016/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur speaker will be Glenn Kinkade\, who will be discussing the Perils\, Paradoxes and Pitfalls in Probate Records. \nWhether you ancestor died with a will of without\, finding the probate records for the decedent may prove to be the most valuable records you can find; however\, these records can be misunderstood\, scattered in many books and boxes in a courthouse\, and can be confusing to a beginning genealogist.  This presentation will help guide you through the challenges of probate records to reap the rewards. \nGlenn Kinkade is an experienced genealogical researcher\, lecturer\, author\, and instructor. \nHe graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wichita State University.  After serving as an officer in the United States Air Force\, he joined IBM in 1960 in Kansas City\, Missouri.  In 1990 he retired from IBM in Dallas\, Texas\, and began pursuing researching his family.  Glenn has taught computer genealogy classes at Southern Methodist University\, SeniorNet of Dallas\, and Brookhaven College\, where he currently teaches several different genealogy courses…  His hobbies include travel\, sailing on tall ships\, attending reenactments of Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 battles\, photography\, and genealogy.  Glenn and his wife Ann live in Dallas and have two married sons and six grandchildren. \nGlenn’s genealogy presentations focus on “how to” successfully use record collections to solve genealogy problems. \n Handout
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-12/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160910T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160910T123000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur speaker will be Shirley Sloat. Her presentation is titled “It takes a village…… to produce a book preserving the memories of the only living grandchild of two Georgia slaves who came in a wagon with nine children to Wheelock\, Texas\, in 1894”. \nShirley met Estelle Mitchell Adams at an aqua exercise class in 2013 and the two formed a friendship. Estelle shared many written documents about the Negro churches\, schools\, and cemetery in Wheelock. When Estelle showed Shirley that she remembered the names of all but about 12 of the 40 students attending the Wheelock Colored School in 1934\, Shirley knew that she had to help to capture Estelle’s voice and memories for the public. \nTheir collaboration has led to the publication of “Remembering Negro Life in Wheelock\, Texas – Churches\, Schools\, Cemetery\, Families in the 1900s” (copies of the new book will be available for sale at the meeting). \nThe intention of the presentation is to provide a suggested path through some of the intricacies of creating a book in general\, to shed some light on the challenges of creating one with a story teller\, and to give courage to those who might have been afraid to try publishing their work. It will include a brief talk from Estelle\, now 89\, followed by Shirley’s account of the various events and help provided along the way by people and organizations like the Texas Portal\, University of North Texas\, Dallas Public Library\, and DGS members\, with particular thanks to Ed Millis who just likes to make books and who tells all about things like achieving an ISBN number. \n\nShirley Remnant Sloat was a computer professional at Texas Instruments and Sun Oil until she retired in 1992. She immediately joined the Dallas Genealogical Society as a Life Member and began working at the Dallas Public Library’s 8th floor volunteer desk. \nShe joined a small genealogy study group who encouraged her to expand her volunteer work into other areas of DGS. Over the years she chaired the publicity committee\, and served on the DGS Board as VP Membership\, Executive VP Fundraising\, and President in 2005-6. \nShe received DGS awards for the Writing Contest\, Volunteer of the Year\, Historical Preservation\, and the Award of Merit. She has received the Dallas Public Library Award of Excellence twice\, and the A.C. Green Award from the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. \nShe still volunteers on the 8th floor on Wednesdays\, and is a proofreader for DGS publications. \nShe has spent the past two years organizing\, editing and indexing\, and posting online and in book format the remembrances of a close friend who is the last living granddaughter of Georgia slaves who came to Wheelock\, Texas in 1894. \n\nEstelle is the author of three other publications that are available on the Portal to Texas History: \n\nThe History Of Wheelock Afro-American Cemetery\, Wheelock\, Robertson County\, Texas (View on the Portal)\nPreserving the History of Wheelock Colored School\, Wheelock\, Robertson County\, Texas (View on the Portal)\nThe Black Churches in Wheelock\, Robertson County\, Texas (View on the Portal)\n\n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-2/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160507T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160507T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00\, followed by our program around 11:30. \nThe major item on this months agenda is the election of officers to the Executive Board for 2016 – 2017. Nominations will be closed at the meeting and the vote will be held immediately afterwards. \nThis months education program will be a look back at the history of the Dallas Genealogical Society: \n– Tony Hanson – Introduction and Overview\n– Carolyn Davis – How we have educated by creating\, fostering\, and maintaining interest in genealogy\n– Barbara Ware – How we have collected\, preserved\, copied\, and indexed information relating to Dallas County and its early history\n– Kathleen Murray – How we have assisted and supported the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas\, Texas\n– Lloyd Bockstruck – His perspective on the relationship between the Dallas Public Library and the society\n– Tony Hanson – Wrap up \nThe presentation will incorporate several drawings and there will (of course!) be a birthday cake. \n April Meeting Minutes\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-10/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160402T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160402T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRead about the proposed Bylaw Changes \nAri Wilkins is a genealogist who works in the Genealogy section of the Dallas Public Library. She will be discussing Ante-Bellum Southern Plantation Records\, which are an invaluable collection of records of plantation owners and\, often\, their descendants that may connect an individual to his or her family. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n March Meeting Minutes\n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-9/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160305T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160305T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBarbara Rust is an archivist in the National Archives-Southwest Region since 1976. She is adjunct instructor of government at Tarrant Community College District\, South Campus\, since 1983 and the distance learning adjunct instructor of government at Dallas Community College District\, Richland College\, 2005-2014. \nBarbara will be talking about North Texas Naturalization Records at NARA Fort Worth. North Texas naturalization records created after 1906 have been accessioned to NARA Fort Worth. The collection included in the records of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Barbara will be discussing this genealogically rich collection\, what we can discover in these original files\, and how to access them. \n February Minutes
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-8/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160206T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
CREATED:20150807T191739Z
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSteven Butler is a Dallas native whose family first came to Texas in 1846 and then arrived in Dallas in 1891\, unless you count his third cousin six times removed\, John Neely Bryan\, who got here some fifty years earlier. \nDoctor Butler is an Associate Professor of History at Richland College in Dallas and Collin College in Plano. He earned his Ph.D. in Transatlantic History at the University of Texas at Arlington. In his capacity as historian and writer he has contributed ten articles since 1989 to Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas and presented two papers at the annual Dallas History Conference. Sixteen of his articles have been published in the U.S. History textbook currently being used by Richland College students. In 2004 his book From Water Supply to Urban Oasis was used as the basis for the permanent displays at the White Rock Lake Museum. In 1998 Doctor Butler was an unpaid but credited advisor to the PBS documentary The U.S.-Mexican War and in 2006 he appeared in a documentary about the State of Fair of Texas called “A Fair to Remember.” From time-to-time he shows up on KERA-TV (Channel 13) whenever the station needs to fill ten-minutes and uses his “Art and Seek” program appearance about the art of Fair Park\, which originally aired in October 2009. \nIn addition and more importantly in regard to this presentation\, Doctor Butler is an experienced family historian (a term he prefers to “genealogist”) who has spent as much of his spare time as he could over the past forty years tracking down his ancestors. \n HOW TO FIND YOUR ENGLISH CONVICT ANCESTOR \nDuring the Colonial period\, largely after 1718\, some 50\,000 convicts were “transported” in chains to America to relieve the pressure on England’s overcrowded prisons. Most of these unwilling immigrants ended up as indentured servants in the tobacco colonies. In this presentation\, Professor Steven Butler will relate how he unexpectedly found his own convict ancestor and will show you how you can use the Internet to see if you have a “black sheep” in your family tree too! \n January Meeting Minutes
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-7/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160109T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
CREATED:20150807T190047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190115T170640Z
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJudy Knight was president of Mid-Cities Genealogical Society and District  #11 Representative of the Texas State Genealogical Society. In 2006 Judy was the Conference Chair for the Texas State Genealogical Society Conference held in Fort Worth\, Texas. In 2012 she was the Vendor/Venue Chair for the State Conference again held in Fort  Worth. \nJudy has also been active in preserving her family cemetery in Tarrant County\, Texas. She worked to have the cemetery declared a Historic State Cemetery in 2001. She also coordinated the program for the 125th Anniversary Reunion in 2005. Judy is the President of the Historic Allen Cemetery Association. \nFrom Respected Lawyer to Counterfeiter\nDigging for details using genealogical and federal court and penitentiary records tells quite a story. \n November Minutes
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-6/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151107T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151107T123000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our presentation this month will be “The Presidential Libraries and the George W. Bush Presidential Center”  made by Alan C. Lowe. \nJoin us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00\, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30. \nReview the minutes from last months meeting by clicking here…. \nPresentation Description: Alan Lowe\, Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum\, will speak about his career with the National Archives and the role of the Presidential libraries.  He will give in depth information on the mission of and plans for the George W. Bush Library which is now open to the public at its permanent facility on the campus of SMU in Dallas.  Lowe provides details on that facility and the many resources and programs the Library will provide. \nOur Speaker: Alan C Lowe is the Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. in history at the University of Kentucky. In 1989\, Lowe joined the staff of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley\, California as an archivist. In 1992\, he moved to the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives in Washington\, D.C.\, where he helped to oversee the Presidential libraries located throughout the nation. During part of that time\, he served as interim Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park\, New York. \nFrom 2003 to 2009\, Lowe served as the founding Executive Director of the Howard Baker\, Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. In April 2009\, Lowe began serving as Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. \n 
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-5/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151003T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151003T123000
DTSTAMP:20260619T092251
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nReview the minutes from last months meeting by clicking here…. \nWe will be approving the 2015 – 2016 budget as well. Access to the budget is restricted to current DGS Members: You must log in to view the document. \nDGS Member login required to view the Proposed Budget\nOur speaker will be Rusty Brenner from Texas Cemetery Restorations. \nJames “Rusty” Brenner started in the monument preservation business while working with my father at his monument company in Crockett\, Texas as a teenager. Where he fell in love with visiting old cemeteries\, photographing old tombstones\, and learning about the history of the people who settled this land and made it home. When he was nineteen years old he decided that someone needed to preserve the beautiful monuments that memorialized our ancestors. And so Texas Cemetery Restoration was born. \nThe mission of Texas Cemetery Restoration LLC is to provide exceptional conservation\, preservation and restoration services to individuals and cemetery associations for their cemetery and monument restoration projects and to help them plan and preserve cultural resources through our GPS mapping\, database\, and ground penetrating radar services. \nHis Presentation will cover the following topics: \n\nCleaning\, leveling\, and repair of tombstone\nGPS Mapping and Burial Databases for Cemeteries\nGround Penetrating Radar to locate unmarked graves\n\nRusty provided links to these web sites: \n\nwww.texascemeteryrestoration.com\nwww.gravestonecleaner.com\nwww.historiccemeterypreservation.com\n\nAnd you can follow Rusty on Facebook: \n\nHistoric-Cemetery-Preservation\nCemetery-Preservation-Supply-LLC
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-4/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:10:30 – Join us for hospitality (mingling\, light snacks) \n11:00 – Business meeting\, including the election of the 2015 – 2016 Board of Directors. We were unable to hold the election at the May meeting due to low turnout… Please make every effort to attend this meeting so we can move ahead with important board business. We will be giving away one free seat for our Fall Seminar featuring Dr. Michael Lacopo to one lucky member!  Review the minutes from last months meeting by clicking here…. \n11:30 (Approximately) – We will he hearing from Debra Polsky\, Executive Director of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society \nDebra will discuss the history of the Jewish community in Dallas\, share information about a program her organization has initiated to discuss history and genealogy with Sunday schools and will tell us about a new initiative being planned to engage with the community using extant family trees to show relationships within the community \nAbout our Speaker\nDebra became Dallas Jewish Historical Society Executive Director in August 2012. Originally an elementary school teacher\, a long career in Jewish Communal Service took her from Chattanooga\, Tennessee to Omaha\, Nebraska to San Francisco\, California; Debra first came to Dallas as the Executive Regional Director for B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO). In addition to teaching in the Melton Adult Education program for 20 years\, she has worked or volunteered for a variety of agencies including Dallas Holocaust Center\, Congregation Kol Ami\, Jewish Community Center of Dallas\, Jewish Community Relations Council\, Dallas Women’s Foundation\, Girl Scouts of NETexas\, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’ Center for Jewish Education and the Dallas Association of Directors of Volunteers. Debra received her Masters of Public Administration and Social Work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Contact Debra Monday-Friday at dpolsky@djhs.org
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-11/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our speaker this month will be Rusty Brenner from Texas Cemetery Restoration.
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting-3/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150502T103000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\n\n	10:30 – Coffee\, Snacks and Conversation\n	11:00 – Business Meeting\n\n	Review the minutes from the previous meeting\n	Election of Officers\n\n\n	11:30 (Approximately) – Educational Presentation\n\nTitle: ‘Ancestors of Mexican American Leaders Who Helped Shape Dallas‘\n\nSpeaker: Susan P Vega\n\nSusan will present a genealogical summary of three prominent Dallas Hispanics whose family trees were published in the Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research (HOGAR) journals. In the 2013 journal\, HOGAR published the family tree of the Honorable Anita N. Martinez\, the first female Mexican American on the Dallas City Council\, in 2014\, the late Pancho Luna of Luna’s Tortilla and in the 2015\, Mr. Pedro Aguirre\, FAIA\, CEO\, Aguirre-Roden\, Architecture.\n\nSusan will focus on the ancestral lines of these three native Dallasites who can trace their family roots to the conquistadors that accompanied Hernan Cortez and to those core families who arrived in North American shortly after the conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s eventually migrating to Northern Mexico and Texas.\n\nA Dallas native and a eleventh generation Texan\, Susan has joined the research efforts of her mother\, Jo Ann Cantu Valentin\, President of HOGAR\, and her aunt\, Gloria Cantu\, Secretary of HOGAR as historians for their family. With over 20 years of experience in the escrow industry\, Susan currently is an Escrow Officer with the Law Office of Kyle Coleman PC. She is also the secretary of the DMAHL – Dallas Mexican American Historical League; 2014 Ambassador Council – President\, 2013 Ambassador Team Lead Award of the Frisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Member of the Little Elm Chamber of Commerce; Board Member/Ambassador of the Prosper Chamber of Commerce.
URL:https://dallasgenealogy.org/event/general-meeting/
LOCATION:1st Floor – Auditorium\, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library\, 1515 Young Street\, Dallas\, TX\, 75201\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meeting
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