Land Records: Using County Central Appraisal District Websites & County Clerk Websites.  County central appraisal district websites offer a wealth of information about real property.  Most counties in the United States have a central appraisal district (CAD) for all towns and cities in the county which provides ownership and county tax and property valuation information.…
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Internet Browser Bookmarks: Tips to organize and share.  Bookmarks in an internet browser allow you to easily return to a webpage, but how can you access that bookmark in a different browser or on a different computer?  This presentation will offer tips on how to organize your bookmarks in a specific browser and offers solutions…
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Facebook Pages for Genealogy. See the Technology Special Interest Group page for more information....

Scanners.  A review of different types of scanner hardware (flatbed, sheet-feeders, FlipPal, wand, book scanner on 8th floor of Dallas Public Library, etc) just in time for Christmas wish lists.  This presentation will complement the November 2013 presentation on scanning by Tony Hanson, archived on the Dallas Genealogical Society's YouTube channel.  See the Technology Special Interest Group page for…
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Topic: Using Adobe Spark to Create Videos and Share Your Genealogy

Please plan to attend the Dallas Genealogical Society’s Technology SIG meeting. Kathleen Murray will present and demonstrate Adobe Spark. Spark, by Adobe, is an application used to create short video films from either a video file or photographs. This is a great way to share family events and your family genealogy with family members who don’t have that genealogy bug.

This month's Tech SIG is a live demonstration of HistoryGeo.com, a subscription website offered by Greg and Vickie Boyd, Arphax Publishing Company.

Please plan to attend the Dallas Genealogical Society’s Technology SIG meeting. Bruce Moore will present a demonstration and discussion on Evidentia.

Please note the change of venue. We’ll be meeting on the 8th floor. Tonight’s Topic: LibraryThing.com – a cloud based cataloging and social networking site for your book and audio/video media library. See the Technology SIG page for more information.

This evening’s topic will be using the Texas General Land Office Website. See the Technology SIG page for more information.

Tonight’s topic: Using on-line applications to plan a research trip/project, family gathering, etc. This is an overview of how online applications like Pinterest, Evernote, OneNote, Facebook, Google Docs and bookmarks can be used to plan a research project or trip, a family gathering, or just about any project. Several of the applications allow you share…
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Deep dive into the Dallas Public Library online resources. The Dallas Public Library has a long list of online resources and databases that can be used for your genealogical research. A few of these resources can be accessed only from the library, but many can be accessed any place you have Internet access. Several of…
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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…
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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.

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.

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.

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…
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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…
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