DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Best Practices Special Interest Group
2019-04-27 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.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2019-04-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-03-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-01-19 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.

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

Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-04-17 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.

Family Tree Maker SIG
2019-04-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-01-13 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

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
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.

2019 Spring Seminar: Michael D. Lacopo – A Method to our Madness
2019-04-13 10:00 - 16:30 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
We are pleased to welcome Michael D. Lacopo, D.V.M. as the featured speaker for our 2019 Spring Seminar, speaking on A Method to our Madness: Sound Methodology for Successful Research.
More details will be provided as they become available.

Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
2019-04-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Mesquite Main Library, 300 W Grubb Dr, Mesquite, TX, United States
State and Territorial Census – Underused Genealogical Tools. Join the Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society on Thursday, April 11th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Mesquite Main Library as Bernard Meisner shares the secrets to using the state and territorial census records in tracing your ancestors. Genealogists are familiar with the federal census records, however, the state and territorial censuses remain a much under-used resource because they were not taken systematically and centrally archived. In this presentation Bernard will discuss these other census reports and their value in filling in the gaps between the federal census years, and in providing additional information concerning your families, their occupations, and the places they lived. The public is invited and welcome. You do not have to be a member to attend. Come early for visiting and refreshments.

General Meeting
2019-04-06 10:30 - 12:30 | 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. Because of other events at the library, parking may be at a premium.

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2019-03-23 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-02-19 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.

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.

Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
2019-03-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Mesquite Main Library, 300 W Grubb Dr, Mesquite, TX, United States
William Covington, history teacher and reenactor, presents the life of a revolutionary war soldier. Uniformed as a Continental soldier of the Congressional cause of the late war period, Bill will display, explain and demonstrate the clothing, weapons and accoutrements with which the common soldier fought against the troops of the British Empire. Come early for visiting and refreshments.

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.

General Meeting
2019-03-02 10:30 - 12:30 | 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. Tony Hanson will be speaking on the timely topic, “How to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime.”

RootsTech 2019
2019-02-27 - 2019-03-02 | Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101, United States

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-02-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2019-01-17 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
2019-02-16 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.”

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.

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.

General Meeting
2019-02-02 10:30 - 12:30 | 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. We will be hearing from our own Ari Wilkins on the subject of “Incorporating Oral History into Your Research.”

20th Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference
2019-01-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Fair Park Hall of State, 3939 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX, 75210, United States
This is a half day conference with lectures about Dallas city and county history. Conference brochure (PDF)

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.

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.
