DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
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

Pleasant Mound Cemetery Photography Day
2016-04-23 07:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | 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 (America/Chicago) | 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

Jewish Special Interest Group
2016-04-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-03-16 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-02-17 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2016-04-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-03-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-02-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-01-16 14:00 - 16:45 (America/Chicago) | 1st Floor – West Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

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

Technology Special Interest Group
2016-04-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2016-01-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

General Meeting
2016-04-02 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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 (America/Chicago) | 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 (America/Chicago) | 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 (America/Chicago) | 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 (America/Chicago) | 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

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

MacGen Reunion Group
2016-02-13 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The main topic will be “Recording DNA Data with Reunion.” I’ve got some good ideas I want to share and I plan to brainstorm with you to find solutions to any other ways you want to record your info. Barbara had an interesting DNA fan chart question which we’ll go over.
Also, we will have a brief demo on exporting from Family Tree Maker into Reunion. I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Ancestry is no longer going to support FTM.
There will be other bits and pieces covered as well if we have time, including:
– How to turn off the microphone when finished using Siri for dictation.
– Adding a re-marriage to a first wife after divorcing the second wife.
– Attaching media files correctly.
– Using Tags to facilitate quick searches.

General Meeting
2016-02-06 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.
Steven Butler is a Dallas native whose family first came to Texas in 1846 and then arrived in Dallas in 1891, unless you count his third cousin six times removed, John Neely Bryan, who got here some fifty years earlier.
Doctor Butler is an Associate Professor of History at Richland College in Dallas and Collin College in Plano. He earned his Ph.D. in Transatlantic History at the University of Texas at Arlington. In his capacity as historian and writer he has contributed ten articles since 1989 to Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas and presented two papers at the annual Dallas History Conference. Sixteen of his articles have been published in the U.S. History textbook currently being used by Richland College students. In 2004 his book From Water Supply to Urban Oasis was used as the basis for the permanent displays at the White Rock Lake Museum. In 1998 Doctor Butler was an unpaid but credited advisor to the PBS documentary The U.S.-Mexican War and in 2006 he appeared in a documentary about the State of Fair of Texas called “A Fair to Remember.” From time-to-time he shows up on KERA-TV (Channel 13) whenever the station needs to fill ten-minutes and uses his “Art and Seek” program appearance about the art of Fair Park, which originally aired in October 2009.
In addition and more importantly in regard to this presentation, Doctor Butler is an experienced family historian (a term he prefers to “genealogist”) who has spent as much of his spare time as he could over the past forty years tracking down his ancestors.
HOW TO FIND YOUR ENGLISH CONVICT ANCESTOR
During the Colonial period, largely after 1718, some 50,000 convicts were “transported” in chains to America to relieve the pressure on England’s overcrowded prisons. Most of these unwilling immigrants ended up as indentured servants in the tobacco colonies. In this presentation, Professor Steven Butler will relate how he unexpectedly found his own convict ancestor and will show you how you can use the Internet to see if you have a “black sheep” in your family tree too!
January Meeting Minutes

RootsTech
2016-02-03 - 2016-02-06 | Tycher Library, Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, 75230, United States

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2016-01-23 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Numbering systems for genealogical reports.
Discuss “Genealogical Numbering Systems: History and Reasoning” by Meline Lutz Byne, NGS Magazine, 41:4 (Oct-Dec 2014), pp 22-25 with some examples of different systems. Marianne Szabo will present an example of Ahnentafel or Ancestor Table. Please read and study Chapter 2, pp 12-21 of our textbook Guide to Genealogical Writing.
After the BB discussion, Liz Kutz will meet with the DAM group for those interested in “digital asset management.”

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-01-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
The program Topic is X Chromosome. The group will look at Fan Charts, Pedigree Charts and Ahnentafel Reports (some times called Ancestor Reports) to assist in finding which of your lines could have X matches.
In preparation, you can read SIG Leader Mic Barnette’s article on his website: “Finding X Chromosomes“. In Mic’s article there is a list of ahnantafel numbers depicting where on anyone’s pedigree chart the x-chromosome matches. Additionally, there are other links that you can read and follow for more information about X chromosomes.
You might want to print out a ahnentafel report and either fan chart or pedigree chart if your genealogy program can do that. Write the ahnentafel numbers on your fan or pedigree chart. Bring these to class.
Here is a link to a blank fan chart.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2016-01-20 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Learn the terminology of the Jewish faith and race, and the various methods for researching these families. Emphasis is on cultural differences (from other races and creeds) which may require alternative genealogical research methods and records from those usually employed. Domestic (United States) and international aspects are both explored.

General Meeting
2016-01-09 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.
Judy Knight was president of Mid-Cities Genealogical Society and District #11 Representative of the Texas State Genealogical Society. In 2006 Judy was the Conference Chair for the Texas State Genealogical Society Conference held in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2012 she was the Vendor/Venue Chair for the State Conference again held in Fort Worth.
Judy has also been active in preserving her family cemetery in Tarrant County, Texas. She worked to have the cemetery declared a Historic State Cemetery in 2001. She also coordinated the program for the 125th Anniversary Reunion in 2005. Judy is the President of the Historic Allen Cemetery Association.
From Respected Lawyer to Counterfeiter
Digging for details using genealogical and federal court and penitentiary records tells quite a story.
November Minutes

Annual Awards Luncheon
2015-12-12 11:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | 1st Floor – Community Showcase Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Register Now!
Join us as we recognize those who have made significant contributions to genealogy and our society. This is a great way to kick off the holiday season, meet old friends and make new ones.

11:30 – Registration
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – Awards

Learn more about our awards and past recipients…

Registration for NGS 2016 Opens
2015-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Greater Fort Lauderdale & Brownard County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33316, United States
Registration for the conference and all related events opens on 1 December 2015.
