Best Practices SIG
2026-08-22 10:30 - 13:00, 2026-09-26 10:30 - 13:00, 2026-10-24 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 6th Floor – Classroom Brno (formerly Classroom B), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
In-person & Virtual Event

The Best Practices SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques.

“The only voice that documents have is the voice we give them.With every document we find, and every story we tell, we have a choice:We can take what we see at face value, report it devoid of context, and run the risk of misrepresenting the circumstances.Or we can seek the context we need to understand the record, the event, and the person.”

– Elizabeth Shown Mills

You can contact Liz Kutz, the SIG leader at bestpractices@dallasgenealogy.org.

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German Genealogy Group
2026-09-12 10:30 - 12:00 | 6th Floor – TaiPei (Classroom D), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
In-person and Virtual Event

Speaker: Bob Greiner

Topic: Germans Found in U.S. Federal Records on the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Website

Bob Greiner will discuss the many resources available on the website of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (MAGS). He will describe various genealogical collections that MAGS has indexed and that are searchable by name on the website. These collections include unique records from churches and institutions, U.S. Department of State consulates in Germany, U.S. government Pension Bureau, and emigration notices from German legal newspapers. He will highlight specific examples of records that reference people from Texas.

The leaders of this group are Ann Broihier and Bernard Meisner. Contact: ggg@dallasgenealogy.org. Learn more about the German Genealogy Group

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Meeting ID: 867 5887 1312, Passcode: [REDACTED]

Bob Greiner is an expert genealogist who focuses on German family research, for his own family as well as to help others find their German ancestors. He has attained an exceptional proficiency in the interpretation of the old German Gothic or Kurrent script.

Bob has published books about several family lines, in print and online. He transcribed and published extractions of German church books from several locations. He also created and maintains a project that links hundreds of immigrant German families from the Pfalz region of Bavaria.

Bob is a regular contributor to the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (MAGS) publication Der Kurier, describing research methods for German immigrants in a column titled “Immigrant Connections.” He has also published research articles in the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal, the National Archives magazine Prologue, and the German Genealogical Group newsletter Der Ahnenforscher.

In addition to serving as the MAGS treasurer, Bob is a member of the Howard County (MD) Genealogical Society, the German Genealogy Group (NY), and volunteers at the Columbia (MD) FamilySearch Center. He also volunteers as a transcriber with the FamilySearch Germany Research Community.
