Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-07-17 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-21 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Best Practices Special Interest Group
2019-07-27 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-08-24 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-10-26 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-11-30 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-12-28 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
2019-08-10 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, 2019-10-16 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-11-20 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-12-18 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.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-09-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2019-12-19 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.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2019-09-21 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-10-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-11-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-12-21 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.

Best Practices Special Interest Group
2019-09-28 10:30 - 13:00 | Location varies – contact SIG leader for more info, Dallas, TX, United States

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-10-03 18:30 - 19:30 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
One of the essential things a genealogist can do to advance their research is proper citation and analysis of their work. There are several citation manuals used in both academic and genealogical research; however, Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills, is specifically written for historical and genealogical research. Join us on October 3 to review the online website which supports the book and learn how this resource might make citation a little less confusing.

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2019-10-13 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
2019-10-13 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
2019-10-18 12:00 - 20:00 | 8th Floor – Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The DNA SIG will host Q&A tables at the Genealogy Network of Texas event. Please note the change of date, time and location.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-10-19 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 Fall Seminar. Double check with the SIG leader about the location. See the MacGen Reunion Group SIG page for more information.

German Special Interest Group 1st Meeting
2019-11-02 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Join us for the first meeting of the German Special Interest Group.
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German Genealogy Interest Group
2019-11-02 13:30 - 15:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
The German Genealogy Group will provide an environment for various levels of German genealogy experience. We will provide a variety of topics from how to locate your ancestors’ hometown in US records to resources for finding and reading German records.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-11-21 18:00 - 19:30 | 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.
Topics: Autosomal DNA testing, MyHeritage Theory of Relativity, and 23andMe Family Tree (Beta).
The meeting will be a “redux” of Autosomal DNA results for family genetic searches. We are calling it “redux,” a late 19th century term meaning brought back or revived, because we need to revisit how atDNA can assist our traditional genealogical research and help beginner to intermediate genetic testers to understand the process. Autosomal DNA is the test used by all DNA testing companies. So invite your friends who haven’t tested or don’t understand how atDNA works to join you at the meeting. We will also take overview of MyHeritage’s Theory of Relativity and 23andMe Family Tree.

Jim Thornhill will bring us up-to-date on the plans for the 2020 DNA Seminar.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-12-07 15:00 - 17:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Please make note of the change of date. We meet on the 1st Saturday in December.
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.
We will have our usual Christmas celebration and pot pourri. Feel free to bring a treat to share and your ideas and questions. If you want to give a mini-presentation, please let me know.
Our topic this time will be: Roots Magic and Personal Historian. Thomas McEntee offered us a great package deal (which I think is still valid if you are interested):
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Jewish Special Interest Group
2020-01-15 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
