Tutorial on indexing. We all benefit from the volunteers who index original records through various websites. You may very well be among the thousands who regularly index or joined a specific indexing campaign. This session will provide general instructions for two or three major indexing sites in preparation for a live indexing session at the…
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Join us for the 2018 DGS Annual Awards Luncheon to honor those who have contributed to the genealogical community in the past year. Admission is Free to any DGS member and $15.00 for non-members and guests.
See the Roots Magic page for more information...
Learn more about Family Tree Maker SIG software. See the SIG page for more information.
Discusses and explores areas of research unique to the African American community. See the African American GIG page for more information.
For anyone with actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines. For more information, see the Jewish SIG page.
We are pleased to be able to announce that the DNA SIG Dec. 20th meeting will be "A Conversation with Kenyatta Berry," sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA. Dallas will be one of the stops on her 20-city book tour featuring The Family Tree Toolkit, A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy.
Please note the change of location. Indexing session. Join us for a live indexing session during our regularly scheduled Tech SIG meeting. You can choose any indexing project to work on or join other volunteers who have a favorite site, such as FamilySearch, BillionGraves or Ancestry.com.
Bernard N. Meisner, Ph.D. will be speaking on the subject of "State and Territorial Censuses – Underused Genealogical Tools." 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.
Join us for Family Discovery Day at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Highland Village. Sessions include basic and advanced techniques, DNA, one-on-one, kids activities, and more.
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.
Family Tree Maker Software SIG is a facilitated group for those utilizing Family Tree Maker Software in their genealogical research
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.
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.
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.
Discusses and explores areas of research unique to the African American community. See the African American GIG page for more information.
This is a half day conference with lectures about Dallas city and county history. Conference brochure (PDF)
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."
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.
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.
