Speaker: Ari Wilkins Whether you have Quaker heritage or African American heritage, come hear Ari tell of the relationships these two groups held and how they often migrated together. Ari has many sources to share on finding those important records.
A Panel Discussion featuring Elizabeth Weinstein, David Golman, May Sebel, and Joe Schackman
Learn basic genealogy research strategies and library databases, plus get help with your personal research from a librarian or expert volunteer. No registration is required. Will be in Arlington Public Library Downtown, 3rd floor Genealogy and Local History room.
The Best Practices SIG (formerly Brown Bag Group) is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques.
Presenter: Jan Edwards
A presentation by Bernard N. Meisner Learn how to import search results from Web sites into spreadsheets, use the spreadsheet’s built-in tools to format and manipulate the data, and process them to investigate possible group migrations and determine family relationships. Also learn how to sort dates of the form 10 May 1869, and overcome Excel’s…
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Presenter: Ari Wilkins, Dallas Public Library Recreating communities can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. This presentation will demonstrate ways to combine data from census records, Sanborn maps, and city directories.
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. Note that this meeting will be held in the Genealogy section on the 8th floor: refreshments will be served in the McDermott room. Stephanie Bennett, Manager of the Genealogy & History Division of…
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Presenter: Nancy Maxwell
Recreating neighborhoods can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. Join us as Ari Wilkins – genealogist, teacher, researcher and specialist in African American research – explains how to use these often overlooked collections of historical information to build a more complete picture of your ancestor’s life. Join the Mesquite Historical…
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Presented by Larry McCarty The process and techniques used for researching any ethnic group’s family history are much the same. You will, however, find challenges and roadblocks that are more common when researching African American Ancestry. Mr McCarty will present tips, tools, guidelines to overcome these challenges. He will use them to demonstrate the success…
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Join us in making history as we embark on the first-ever 24-hour genealogy webinar marathon, where you will learn how to trace your ancestors from the world's top genealogists and educators. From advanced Googling to DNA, from The Great Lakes to Australia and Germany, there's something for everyone... in every time zone. And thanks to…
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The focus of this group is Germans who emigrated to various parts of the United States from the 1700’s through the 1900’s.
DR. PETER MARTÍNEZ, PhD, Associate Professor of History Tarrant County College – Northeast Campus. Dr. Martínez will discuss 1) how crops and foods in the Pre-Columbia Americas affected the development of certain European Asian countries; 2) how Europeans (and Mexican elites) viewed the indigenous American foods; and 3) the idea of food and cultural identity,…
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We will hold the Dallas Genealogical Society’s DNA Special Interest Group via GoToMeeting, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 19, 2020. Note that the Dallas Public Library is closed. If you haven’t used GoToMeeting before or in a while, you should follow the “New to GoToMeeting?” instructions below in advance of signing on for the…
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Jim Schwartz Annual Lecture Series
Join the Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society’s interest group to explore your genealogy questions. This group will meet to discuss how to get started, how to keep and store records, where to look for online information, as well as any other genealogy question you might have. Meetings are on the 3rd Saturday of every month…
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Join us online! We will be conducting this meeting virtually. The conference bridge will be up at 10:30 to give everybody time to log in, get our technology working and catch up on what is happening. Our business meeting will begin promptly at 11:00 and will be followed by our educational presentation.
