DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Family Tree Maker SIG - Virtual Meeting
2021-03-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-11 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-05-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-06-13 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Meeting, Dallas, TX, United States
Family Tree Maker Software SIG is a facilitated group for those utilizing Family Tree Maker Software in their genealogical research.
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Coppell Genealogy Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-03-16 18:30 - 21:30 | Cozby Library and Commuity Commons, 117 North Heartz Road, Coppell, TX, 75019, United States
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Presentation: Family Records are a Goldmine for Family Historians by Deane Baron

The Challenges of Jewish DNA Testing by Kitty Monson Cooper - Jewish Special Interest Group Virtual Meeting
2021-03-17 15:00 - 17:30 | Online Meeting, Dallas, TX, United States
This month’s meeting will feature Kitty Monson Cooper, who will be discussing “The Challenges of Jewish DNA Testing“.
Kitty is a well-known blogger on genetics and genealogy. She started blog.kittycooper.com in 2012 to keep track of her own family’s DNA tests as well as her genealogical research. Then she added some tools she wrote for working with DNA relationships. Between the tools and the simple step by step pictorial explanations written for her relatives, the blog soon became extremely popular. It currently gets several thousand unique visitors a day. Her popularity earned her a spot on the top ten Rockstar genetic genealogists list in the last several years.
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Kitty's interest in family history and genealogy started at her beloved Aunt Marion's funeral in 1997 when she realized that many stories had died with her aunt. She resolved not to let any more of them be forgotten and started collecting stories and family data from that day forward.
Her interest in DNA dates back to high school biology where she was fascinated to realize it was her genes that caused her to look so like her father and even have his blue eyes while her brother had their mother's brown eyes. Her father was 100% Norwegian American and her mother was born in Munich to a Jewish father and Bavarian mother, an interesting DNA mixture. Kitty was able to test her dad, both maternal aunts, and her brother plus many cousins for an endlessly interesting family DNA project.
Kitty started programming computers in 1966 while still in high school and recently retired from her own small web development business. In her spare time she has created a number of tools for the genetic genealogy community for displaying pictures of whom their DNA is from, showing overlapping segments, grouping the DNA overlaps, and converting ahnentafel lists to GEDcoms.
She has a cum laude degree from Harvard University and is also a World Champion Bridge player. Born and raised in New York City, she now lives in Lakeside, California (East San Diego County) with her husband Steve and their dog Kyndra. They have over an acre and more than 20 fruit trees. Gardening is another hobby of hers.

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For more information, see the Jewish SIG page.

DNA Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-03-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
The purpose of the DNA Interest Group is to explore the use of DNA as a genealogical tool. See the DNA Interest Group page for more information.
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African American Genealogical Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-03-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2021-04-17 14:00 - 16:45, 2021-05-15 14:00 - 16:45 | 1st Floor – Community Showcase Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Discusses and explores areas of research unique to the African American community. Meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of each month from September through May in the West room, from 2:00 to 4:45 pm unless otherwise noted. See the African American GIG page for more information.
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Best Practices Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-03-27 10:30 - 13:00, 2021-04-24 10:30 - 13:00, 2021-05-22 10:30 - 13:00, 2021-06-26 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The Best Practices SIG (formerly Brown Bag Group) is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques.
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MacGen Reunion Group (Virtual Meeting)
2021-04-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2021-06-12 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The MacGen Reunion Group covers genealogy from a Mac-centric view, with an emphasis on Reunion genealogy software. See the MacGen Reunion Group SIG page for more information.
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Roots Magic Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-04-11 13:30 - 14:30, 2021-05-09 13:30 - 14:30, 2021-06-13 13:30 - 14:30 | Online Meeting, Dallas, TX, United States
The RootsMagic SIG offers group discussion and sharing of information on getting the most out of the RootsMagic genealogy software running on PCs (Windows) and the Mac. The goal is to help each other utilize the software to the fullest extent.
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Coppell Genealogy Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Cozby Library and Commuity Commons, 117 North Heartz Road, Coppell, TX, 75019, United States
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Join us for a dynamic program from Michelle Dwyer Cohen, who will present “Maximizing Online Searching”, highlighting ways to structure and focus your searches, and a variety of websites with lots of free information.
Michelle has been doing genealogy for 25 years, has a certificate in genealogical research from Boston University, operates her own genealogy business (www.dwyerresearch.com), and lectures at libraries in the DFW area.

Jewish Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-04-21 10:30 - 13:00, 2021-05-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2021-06-16 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
For anyone with actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines. For more information, see the Jewish SIG page.
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German Genealogy Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-05-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Online Meeting, Dallas, TX, United States
The focus of this group is Germans who emigrated to various parts of the United States from the 1700’s through the 1900’s. The group is not limited to Germans who came to Texas.
The leaders of this group are Ann Broihier and Bernard Meisner. You can send them email at ggg.dallasgenealogy.org
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Coppell Genealogy Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-05-18 18:30 - 21:30 | Cozby Library and Commuity Commons, 117 North Heartz Road, Coppell, TX, 75019, United States
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Getting Started with Puerto Rican Genealogy and Puerto Rican Myths by Luis Ariel Rivera

Coppell Genealogy Special Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-06-15 18:30 - 21:30 | Cozby Library and Commuity Commons, 117 North Heartz Road, Coppell, TX, 75019, United States
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African American Genealogical Interest Group - Virtual Meeting
2021-06-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2021-07-17 14:00 - 16:45 | Online Meeting, Dallas, TX, United States
