Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2019-02-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-03-23 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

DNA Special Interest Group
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.

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.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2019-03-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-04-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-05-18 14:00 - 16:45 | 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.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-03-20 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-04-17 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-05-15 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-06-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-07-17 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-21 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
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.

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2019-04-14 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-07-14 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
2019-04-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-07-14 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

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
SIG members who attended the 2019 Genetic Genealogy Conference for FamilyTree DNA Project Administrators’ Conference last month in Houston will discuss what they learned including:
– FTDNA’s involvement with Law Enforcement (LE) DNA searches.
– New FTDNA features to be rolled out in the next year
– New book of techniques and case studies, edited by Debbie Parker Wayne: Advanced Genetic Genealogy.
– GDPR and the Project Administrator, i.e. things I didn’t know
– Big 500 to Big 700
– ISOGG ideas
– Tour of the FTDNA lab
– and more

Best Practices Special Interest Group
2019-04-27 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-05-25 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-06-22 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-07-27 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-24 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 is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques. For 2019 the group is working from the book, Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of our Private Property Mosaic.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Please note: This event was moved from its originally scheduled date to avoid conflicting with the Spring Seminar. Double check with the SIG leader about the location. Our topic this month is tricks and techniques for using spreadsheets to aid your genealogy research.

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Using Google Docs and Slides to create family history presentations. We started the year learning about online resources to plan a family gathering or start a research project. So you have a family gathering scheduled (or not), what better way to organize and present pictures and new information you’ve gathered than with a slide show you can share with family members? This tutorial will show you how to put together a slide-show using the free Google Docs and Slides applications.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-05-16 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 will meet Thursday, May 16, 2019 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Stone Room, on the 7th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.
Jan Breshears Thomas will be presenting the DNA SIG program. She has worked with Ancestry’s ThruLines in depth over the past couple of months following more than 800 matches and put them on her tree. She will be discussing this new feature and a few other new features that Ancestry has begun using. If you have not spent much time looking at Ancestry recently, and especially if you have not worked on their DNA on Ancestry, you will be impressed with these additions.
She has developed a method that helps her to understand just what she is finding. As a result of using ThruLines, she believe she has knocked down a brick wall that has bugged her family since at least the 1950s: finding her grandfather’s grandparents on his mother’s side. She says “I began the search after my mother’s death. I have a letter from my grandfather to my mother that states that his mother was an orphan. I’ve mentioned in other DNA meetings that I was looking for them. It will be nice to tell everyone of my discoveries.”
See the DNA Interest Group page for more information on this group.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-08-10 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. This month’s topic is “Case Study on Using Facebook for Genealogy.”

Technology SIG
2019-09-05 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix Restore software, will join us online with a demonstration of the Restore software. With this software, you can restore scanned prints, slides, documents, and digital camera images in seconds. We all have digital images of documents (census pages, deeds, marriage records) which are faded and difficult to read. Our archives of family photos undoubtedly contain images with faded color. This software uses patented image science to improve and restore images.
If you have limited experience with photo-editing software, this software may be a solution with its one-click improvement process. If you want more control, additional editing features are available.
Rick will answer questions after his demonstrations, so join us in person or online.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-09-18 10:30 - 13:00 | Location varies – contact SIG leader for more info, Dallas, TX, United States
For anyone with actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines. For more information, see the Jewish SIG page. Contact jewishgen@dallasgenealogy.org for meeting location information.
