• DPL: FamilySearch Full-Text Search: Unlocking Hidden Records

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Discover one of the most powerful—and often overlooked—tools in modern genealogy research. FamilySearch's Full-Text Search uses advanced AI technology to search the handwritten text within millions of digitized historical records, helping researchers uncover names, places and stories that traditional indexes may have missed.

  • DPL: Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    During Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours, you can scan and restore photographs, record the stories behind them, and create a personalized video that combines your images with audio recordings. Share family memories in your own voice, preserve the stories behind treasured photographs, and create a digital keepsake to pass down to future generations.

  • Best Practices SIG Study Group

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    The Best Practices SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques. The SIG is putting on a regular study group in addition to the formal Best Practices SIG meeting. This is for folks to come and work together, talk about genealogy and answer questions.

    There is no set agenda, just time to spend together!

  • DPL: Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    During Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours, you can scan and restore photographs, record the stories behind them, and create a personalized video that combines your images with audio recordings. Share family memories in your own voice, preserve the stories behind treasured photographs, and create a digital keepsake to pass down to future generations.

  • DPL: Canva for Genealogy: Practical Tools and Applications

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Discover how Canva can help you transform genealogy research into engaging visual stories. Whether you're creating family history keepsakes, promoting genealogy society events, designing reunion materials or presenting research findings, Canva offers easy-to-use tools for every skill level. This program introduces practical ways genealogists can use Canva to organize, present and share their work.

  • Jewish Special Interest Group

    Jewish Community Center of Dallas 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, United States

    The Jewish Genealogical Interest Group’s mission is to assist anyone to research their actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines.

  • DPL: Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    During Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours, you can scan and restore photographs, record the stories behind them, and create a personalized video that combines your images with audio recordings. Share family memories in your own voice, preserve the stories behind treasured photographs, and create a digital keepsake to pass down to future generations.

  • Best Practices SIG

    6th Floor - Classroom Brno (formerly Classroom B), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    The Best Practices SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques.

  • DPL: Volunteer Transcription Orientation

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Help Make Dallas History Searchable from Home! Join the Dallas Public Library's Remote Volunteer Transcription Program and help unlock historic records for researchers, genealogists, homeowners and historians. Volunteers can work from anywhere, on their own schedule, transcribing historical documents into searchable text. No commute is required after the orientation—just a computer, internet access and an interest in preserving local history.

  • DPL: 250 Years of Us Book Club: The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

    In August’s selection, we broaden our view of the American Revolution beyond the thirteen colonies to examine its far-reaching global consequences. Richard Bell situates the conflict within a worldwide struggle among empires, exploring how events in North America reshaped international politics, trade, and ideas about liberty and self-government. By tracing connections across the Atlantic and beyond, the book challenges readers to see the Revolution not as an isolated national story, but as a transformative event that altered the course of world history and influenced movements for change far beyond the borders of the new United States.

  • DPL: Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    During Vivid-Pix Memory Station Open Hours, you can scan and restore photographs, record the stories behind them, and create a personalized video that combines your images with audio recordings. Share family memories in your own voice, preserve the stories behind treasured photographs, and create a digital keepsake to pass down to future generations.

  • DPL: Volunteer Transcription Orientation

    8th Floor - Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Help Make Dallas History Searchable from Home! Join the Dallas Public Library's Remote Volunteer Transcription Program and help unlock historic records for researchers, genealogists, homeowners and historians. Volunteers can work from anywhere, on their own schedule, transcribing historical documents into searchable text. No commute is required after the orientation—just a computer, internet access and an interest in preserving local history.

  • DGS General Meeting

    7th Floor - O'Hara Hall - J. Erik Jonsson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Join Laura Cubbage-Draper as she presents "Cluster and Collateral Research (FAN Principle) for Genealogical Problem Solving."

  • German Genealogy Group

    6th Floor - TaiPei (Classroom D), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    Join Bob Greiner as he presents on "Germans Found in U.S. Federal Records on the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Website."

  • Jewish Special Interest Group

    Jewish Community Center of Dallas 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX, United States

    The Jewish Genealogical Interest Group’s mission is to assist anyone to research their actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines.

  • DNA Special Interest Group

    6th Floor - TaiPei (Classroom D), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    The DNA Special Interest Group explores the use of DNA as a genealogical tool.

  • Best Practices SIG

    6th Floor - Classroom Brno (formerly Classroom B), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    The Best Practices SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques.

  • African American Genealogical Interest Group

    6th Floor - Classroom Brno (formerly Classroom B), J. Erik Jonnson Central Library 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, United States

    The group discusses use of variety of sources, including census research, reconstruction and Freedman Bureau records, NARA combined military records of the U.S. Colored Troops, Plantation Slave records, Slave schedules and other records.

  • Fall Seminar featuring Diana Elder

    Dallas Public Library - J Eric Jonsson 1515 Young Street, DALLAS, TX, United States

    Join us for our Fall Seminar where Diana Elder, AG, AGL covers "Genealogy Today: Using AI and DNA in Your Research." Watch this space for more information!

    TBD