DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Technology Special Interest Group
2018-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
This month’s Tech SIG is a live demonstration of HistoryGeo.com, a subscription website offered by Greg and Vickie Boyd, Arphax Publishing Company. You may recognize the Boyds as the publishers of the Family Maps series – books by counties in public land states which provide information on first land owners, homestead information, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, roadways, and more. HistoryGeo.com is a single, interactive map containing over 12.3 million landowners among 30 states (all 29 of the public land states in the Continental U.S., plus Texas) and it contains all of the information in the published books and more. A subscription to this site allows you to organize your persons of interest, add relevant information to the saved people and much more. Join us this Thursday to see a demonstration of this important resource in doing the land research for your families in public land states.
See the Technology SIG page for more information.

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2018-01-27 10:30 - 13:30 | 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.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2018-01-20 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
2018-01-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
January’s topic: A look at Swedish records. How I solved a problem proving an ancestor with DNA. – Jean Larson.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2018-01-17 10:00 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Join us for a discussion of Jewish Surname books.

General Meeting
2018-01-06 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.
Our educational presentation, 1890 Census Substitutes: Bridging the Gap, will be made by Bill Buckner from the Waco-McLennan County Library.
The story behind the 1890 Census starts out like so many of those burned courthouse tales of gloom and doom. Yes, there was a fire and yes it is true that the 1890 Census was destroyed. Its destruction left a 20-year gap in the decennial chain of census records for researchers. How are we to cross this abyss back through time from 1900 to 1880 and connect to our ancestors with any degree of certainty? One strategy is to look for census substitutes or alternative sources. Remember the goal should be to identify an ancestor in a geographic place and time and define family relationships. A variety of substitutes from reconstructed 1890 Census to other types of enumerations will be presented. Additionally, clues that can be found in a score of familiar records that can help researchers gain knowledge about their ancestors and bridge the gap will be highlighted.
William D. “Bill” Buckner
Bill Buckner is the Genealogy Supervisor of the Genealogy Center of the Waco-McLennan County Library for the past nineteen years. In addition to teaching a quarterly Genealogy Beginners Class, Bill has had numerous speaking engagements with various organizations. Some of his recent presentations include: Retro Genealogy Resources Still Viable in Today’s Online World; The Digital Public Library of America: Another Tool for Family Historians; and Extra! Extra! Extra! From the Headlines to the Classifieds, Newspapers Deliver Genealogical Gems.
Bill heads up the McLennan County Cemetery Interest Group (MCCIG). Formed in 2002, this volunteer organization of the Center seeks to identify and inventory McLennan County cemeteries. In 2012, the results of 35 cemetery inventories were published by the Central Texas Genealogical Society (CTGS) as McLennan County, Texas Cemetery Records, v. 9.
Bill initiated and co-hosts with the Central Texas Genealogical Society the very popular annual Genealogy Lock-in. This event has helped bring together the organizations and individuals that use, support, and have an interest in the Genealogy Center collection. In 2011, Bill started a movement to connect libraries that had similar events through the use of technology to share programming and resources. Twenty-eight Texas libraries participated in the 17th annual Lock-in October 2017.
Bill is District 12 Representative for the Texas State Genealogical Society (TxSGS), and serves as the TxSGS Chair of the Book Awards and serves as the overall TxSGS Awards Chair. In 2011, Bill received the President’s Award from TSGS for his contributions. He also has served on various genealogy/history committees with the Texas Library Association and American Library Association.
Bill received his BS from Southwestern University, and his MS in Library Science from UNT. Bill is a fourth-generation Texan and lives in Temple, Texas with his family.
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Technology Special Interest Group
2018-01-04 18:00 - 19:30 | 7th Floor – O’Hara Hall – J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
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.

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2017-12-23 10:30 - 13:00, 2017-11-25 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
See the Brown Bag Special Interest Group page for more information…

DNA Special Interest Group
2017-12-21 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
December’s Topic: Using GedMatch, a review and a look at the new tools. – Mic Barnette

Jewish Special Interest Group
2017-12-20 10:00 - 13:00, 2017-10-18 10:00 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
See the Jewish Special Interest Group web page for more information….

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2017-12-16 14:00 - 16:45, 2017-11-18 14:00 - 16:45, 2017-10-21 14:00 - 16:45 | 1st Floor – West Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
See the African American Genealogical Interest Group page for more information…

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2017-12-10 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
See the Roots Magic page for more information…

Annual Awards Luncheon
2017-12-09 11:30 - 14:00 | 7th Floor – O’Hara Hall – J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Read about past award recipients and nominate somebody you think is deserving on our Awards page.
Registration for this event is required.

Technology Special Interest Group
2017-12-07 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
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 more information….

MacGen Reunion Group
2017-12-02 14:00 - 16:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
It’s time for our annual Christmas meeting! It will be in the McDermott Room on the 8th floor of the downtown library at 2 PM on Saturday, the 2nd.

If this is your first time, we hold the December meeting on the 1st Saturday (instead of the second) an hour later than usual which will be 2 PM. This is to avoid conflicts with the Children’s Parade and the DGS banquet.

As usual, we will have a Potpourri where you can ask any questions you have about Reunion software and/or the Mac. Since we didn’t get the Chart topic done last time, I will cover that, too.

Feel free to bring any goodies and we’ll celebrate the season and plan for our Christmas purchases and projects.

DNA Special Interest Group
2017-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Mic and Jean will bring information from the FamilyTreeDNA Project Administrators’ Conference. The current DNA research and new tools will be the focus.
See the DNA Special Interest Group page for more information….

Jewish Special Interest Group
2017-11-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Tycher Library, Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, 75230, United States
The Jewish SIG Group will meet November 15, 2017 at 10:30 am at the Tycher Library at the Jewish Community Center on Northaven Road. Everyone please bring their favorite “Brick Wall”. We will talk about them and various archives of other religions.

General Meeting
2017-11-04 10:30 - 12:30 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Title: Why Our Stories Matter
Thatcher Freund, a journalist and memoir writer, will talk about the importance of stories in our lives both to ourselves and to the work we do in researching our family histories, and why it matters so much that we preserve them.

Thatcher is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.A. in History, and the Columbia School of Journalism, and was born and raised in Austin. His published work includes The Python Trail, the story of an immigrant’s journey from Cameroon to America, and Objects of Desire: The Lives of Antiques and Those Who Pursue Them, which follows the lives of three pieces of American furniture from their creations in the 18th century to their sales at Sotheby’s 250 years later.
Besides his speaking engagements, Thatcher helps people to write their own memoirs and teaches workshops on memoir writing.

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Technology Special Interest Group
2017-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Facebook Pages for Genealogy.
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Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2017-10-28 10:30 - 13:00 | 3rd Floor – Laurie Evans Studio, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Please note the alternate meeting location: 3rd Floor, Laurie Evans Studio . See the Brown Bag Special Interest Group page for more information…

Texas State Genealogical Society Annual Meeting
2017-10-20 08:00 - 2017-10-22 17:00 | TX

DNA Special Interest Group
2017-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
How and why are the ethnicity reports difference among the various DNA testing companies. Join us for this program looking at FTDNA, AncestryDNA, 23andMe and a couple of others.
See the DNA Special Interest Group page for more information.

MacGen Reunion Group
2017-10-14 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
See the MacGen Reunion page for more information about this group…

General Meeting
2017-10-14 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.
This months Educational Presentation will be made by Doctor Steven Butler. He is the author of ‘John Neely Bryan: The Father of Dallas’, a biography about John Neely Bryan which will be the topic of his presentation.
Doctor 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.
He 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.
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.
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Technology Special Interest Group
2017-10-05 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
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 for organizing a master list of bookmarks in an online bookmark manager like Delicious or Diigo, a spreadsheet or Evernote, giving you access no matter the browser or computer you use.

Fall Seminar featuring D. Joshua Taylor
2017-09-30 10:00 - 16:30 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS is a nationally known and recognized genealogical author, lecturer, and researcher and a frequent speaker at family history events across the globe. Passionate about family history, Joshua is the President and Executive Director of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society (NYG&B).
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