DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2016-07-23 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-06-25 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-05-28 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-04-23 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-02-27 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

Jewish Special Interest Group
2016-07-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-06-15 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-05-18 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-04-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-03-16 10:00 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

MacGen Reunion Group
2016-06-11 13:00, 2016-04-09 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2016-05-21 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-04-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-03-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-02-20 14:00 - 16:45 | 1st Floor – West Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-05-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2016-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

General Meeting
2016-05-07 10:30 - 13:00 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our program around 11:30.
The major item on this months agenda is the election of officers to the Executive Board for 2016 – 2017. Nominations will be closed at the meeting and the vote will be held immediately afterwards.
This months education program will be a look back at the history of the Dallas Genealogical Society:
– Tony Hanson – Introduction and Overview
– Carolyn Davis – How we have educated by creating, fostering, and maintaining interest in genealogy
– Barbara Ware – How we have collected, preserved, copied, and indexed information relating to Dallas County and its early history
– Kathleen Murray – How we have assisted and supported the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, Texas
– Lloyd Bockstruck – His perspective on the relationship between the Dallas Public Library and the society
– Tony Hanson – Wrap up
The presentation will incorporate several drawings and there will (of course!) be a birthday cake.
April Meeting Minutes

Technology Special Interest Group
2016-05-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2016-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

National Genealogical Society Annual Meeting
2016-05-04 - 2016-05-07 | Greater Fort Lauderdale & Brownard County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33316, United States

Pleasant Mound Cemetery Photography Day
2016-04-23 07:30 - 12:30 | Pleasant Mound Cemetery, 3151 South Buckner Boulevard,, Dallas, 75227, United States
Grab your smart phone and help photograph tombstones at the historic Pleasant Mound cemetery… Volunteer now

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-04-21 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
We will talk about the changes in GEDMatch for FTDNA users, share what the DIG members have learned from using GEDMatch during the past two months, and look at the following features in GEDMatch.

GEDCOM to All
2 GEDCOMs
Search all GEDCOMs
GEDCOM + DNA Matches
User Lookup

General Meeting
2016-04-02 10:30 - 13:00 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.
Read about the proposed Bylaw Changes
Ari Wilkins is a genealogist who works in the Genealogy section of the Dallas Public Library. She will be discussing Ante-Bellum Southern Plantation Records, which are an invaluable collection of records of plantation owners and, often, their descendants that may connect an individual to his or her family.

March Meeting Minutes

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2016-03-26 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The topic for the March Brown Bag SIG discussion will be about writing an ancestor character sketch for a family history. The Register Style for building a character sketch can be found in Guide to Genealogical Writing pp. 14-18.
As a writing assignment you should choose one of your ancestors and write a short sketch in the Register style. A computer generated sketch is okay as a starting point. We will share results in the meeting.

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-03-17 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
The Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group (DIG) will meet on Thursday, March 17, 2016 in the Hamon Room (5th floor) of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library from 6:00 p.m to 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate your DNA ethnic heritage on St. Patrick’s Day as Mic Barnette, SIG Leader, will discuss ethnicity results found in FTDNA (MyOrigins), Ancestry (Ethnicity Estimate), and 23andMe (Ancestry Composition). Review your DNA results and bring your questions. For example, do siblings have the same ethnicity results? Why? Why not?
Remember to try out GedMatch. We will continue with its tools in April. Jean Larson will be our presenter in May.
Daylight savings time today reminds us that summer is on the way. We will discuss whether or not to meet in June, July and August as DGS general meetings and some of the other SIGs take a break.

2016: Spring Seminar: Paul Milner
2016-03-12 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
From Whence They Came
Millions of people immigrated to this country. This seminar will help you understand why they left, how they got here and how to trace their steps with an emphasis on the British Isles. Paul Milner, professional genealogist and international lecturer, will give four lectures on Saturday, March 12, 2016.
– Effective Use of England’s National Archives Website
– Irish Emigrants to North America: Before, During and After the Famine
– Scottish Emigration to North America: Before, During and After the Rebellions
– Overlooked Sources for 17th and 18th century English Research
More Information & Registration

General Meeting
2016-03-05 10:30 - 13:00 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.
Barbara Rust is an archivist in the National Archives-Southwest Region since 1976. She is adjunct instructor of government at Tarrant Community College District, South Campus, since 1983 and the distance learning adjunct instructor of government at Dallas Community College District, Richland College, 2005-2014.
Barbara will be talking about North Texas Naturalization Records at NARA Fort Worth. North Texas naturalization records created after 1906 have been accessioned to NARA Fort Worth. The collection included in the records of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Barbara will be discussing this genealogically rich collection, what we can discover in these original files, and how to access them.
February Minutes

Technology Special Interest Group
2016-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Using Web-based Apps to Publish
You’ve spent years researching your family history, locations and special or unique sources. You do not have to publish a book to share and publish your research and your conclusions. On Thursday night, we’ll look at web-based repositories where you can publish your findings. These include: family history e-books, Dallas Genealogical Society resources, Find-a-Grave.com, Billiongraves.com, US Gen Web, Blogs, Wikis, genealogical society publications, FamilySearch.or trees, Ancestry.com Trees, My Heritage.com trees. You can publish in small pieces or produce that final book.
For those of you who cannot join us in person you can still be part of the evening from home or wherever you happen to be at the time by joining the conversation using our GoTo Meeting account (note that we are limited to 25 users).
GoTo meeting is a web based tool that will allow you to see whatever I am showing the rest of the group on my PC. It also has an audio bridge and your choice of using your telephone or your PC’s microphone and speaker (actually a headset works better).
You will need to download some software (it’s free), and works on just about any type of PC, laptop, tablet or smart phone out there.
Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/270215877
The access code is 270-215-877
– There also is an audio only phone number: +1 (224) 501-3412 with the same Access Code: [REDACTED]
– It takes a few minutes to download & start the session so I will start at 5:40 to give you time to get connected before the meeting
