African American Genealogical Interest Group
2018-10-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2018-11-17 14:00 - 16:45, 2018-12-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-01-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-03-16 14:00 - 16:45 (America/Chicago) | 1st Floor – West 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. See the African American GIG page for more information.

DNA Special Interest Group
2018-11-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2019-02-21 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.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2018-11-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Jewish Community Center of Dallas, 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, 75230, United States
For anyone with actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines. This months meeting will held at the Jewish Community Center of Dallas.
For more information about the group, see the Jewish SIG page.

MacGen Reunion Group
2018-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Per our usual December schedule, we are meeting at 2 PM this Saturday because of the Children’s Parade and competing Christmas activities. We will meet in the McDermott Room on the 8th floor of the downtown library.

This is our Christmas meeting so feel free to bring any goodies you want to share.

Our topic this month is: House Histories. Also, we’d love it if you tell us any exciting findings you made this year or brick walls broken, etc. And, there will be time for Q&A about anything you want to ask.

Technology Special Interest Group
2018-12-06 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Tutorial on indexing. We all benefit from the volunteers who index original records through various websites. You may very well be among the thousands who regularly index or joined a specific indexing campaign. This session will provide general instructions for two or three major indexing sites in preparation for a live indexing session at the January 2019 Tech SIG meeting at the Dallas Public Library.

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2018-12-09 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
See the Roots Magic page for more information…

Family Tree Maker SIG
2018-12-09 15:00 - 16:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Learn more about Family Tree Maker SIG software. See the SIG page for more information.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2018-12-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-03-20 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.

DNA Special Interest Group
2018-12-20 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
We are pleased to be able to announce that the DNA SIG Dec. 20th meeting will be “A Conversation with Kenyatta Berry,” sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA. Dallas will be one of the stops on her 20-city book tour featuring The Family Tree Toolkit, A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy.

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-01-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 8th Floor – Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Please note the change of location. Indexing session. Join us for a live indexing session during our regularly scheduled Tech SIG meeting. You can choose any indexing project to work on or join other volunteers who have a favorite site, such as FamilySearch, BillionGraves or Ancestry.com.

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2019-01-13 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-04-14 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, 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.

Family Tree Maker SIG
2019-01-13 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-04-14 15:00 - 16:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Family Tree Maker Software SIG is a facilitated group for those utilizing Family Tree Maker Software in their genealogical research

Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-01-16 10:30 - 13:00 | Tycher Library, Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, 75230, United States
Please note the change of location: we will be meeting at the Tycher Library at the Jewish Community Center. We are going to study Avotaynu’s book Jewish Genealogy along with Methodology. You do not have to buy this book as it is quite expensive, but they do have a small paperback that is quite helpful.

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2019-01-19 10:30 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Please note the date change. The Brown Bag SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques. See the Brown Bag SIG page for more information.

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Free newspaper sites: Google Newspapers and Chronicling America « Library of Congress. Google and the Library of Congress have a major collection of digitized and free access to older newspapers from across the United States. Learn the unique aspects to searching these collections and more about the content.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-02-09 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. Our topic on Saturday will be “Using Reunion to Search Online Websites.” Reunion has very useful tools for investigating many websites, such as, Ancestry, FamilySearch.com, Find A Grave, USGenWeb and many more.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2019-02-16 14:00 - 16:45 | 1st Floor – West Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Join us for a partner event sponsored by AAGIG and the Dallas Public Library, presenting author Pamela Bailey who is launching a documentary of the search for her family entitled “The Big Family Search, Reuniting an American Family Separated by Forced Migration in the Antebellum South.”

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2019-02-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-03-23 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The Brown Bag SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques. See the Brown Bag SIG page for more information.

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-03-07 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Report from RootsTech 2019. RootsTech 2019 will be held February 27-March 2, 2019. The Expo Hall will have over 200 companies offering products and services to help with genealogical research. Come hear about the new technology-based offerings, as well as updates on the familiar.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
The DNA Special Interest Group’s featured speaker is Kelvin L Meyers, professional forensic genealogist. As a founding member for the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG), he is uniquely qualified to present a lecture on forensic genealogy. See the DNA Interest Group page for more information.
