DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

SLIG Virtual
2019-09-01 | Online
Three online courses for Fall 2019: All-DNA Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum – Nordic Part III: In-Depth Swedish and Finnish Research – Intermediate Foundations. Registration opens June 15, 2019. Courses run from September 1st through November 30th.

Best Practices Special Interest Group
2019-08-24 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-07-27 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-06-22 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-05-25 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-04-27 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The Best Practices SIG is for genealogists who want to learn advanced methodology skills and techniques. For 2019 the group is working from the book, Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of our Private Property Mosaic.

Jewish Special Interest Group
2019-08-21 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-07-17 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-06-19 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-05-15 10:30 - 13:00, 2019-04-17 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
For anyone with actual (or suspected) Jewish ancestral lines. For more information, see the Jewish SIG page.

Federation of Genealogical Societies Annual Conference
2019-08-21 - 2019-08-24 | Washington, DC, Washington, DC, United States
FGS makes its first visit to the nation’s capital with the National Archives, Library of Congress, DAR Library, and more a Metro ride away.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-08-10 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
The MacGen Reunion Group covers genealogy from a Mac-centric view, with an emphasis on Reunion genealogy software. This month’s topic is “Case Study on Using Facebook for Genealogy.”

2019 Summer Seminar: Judy Russell
2019-08-03 10:00 - 16:30 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
We are pleased to welcome Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist, as the featured speaker for our 2019 Summer Seminar, focusing on Tracing Your Ancestors Through Courthouse Records.

Family Tree Maker SIG
2019-07-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2019-04-14 15:00 - 16:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Family Tree Maker Software SIG is a facilitated group for those utilizing Family Tree Maker Software in their genealogical research

Roots Magic Special Interest Group
2019-07-14 13:30 - 14:30, 2019-04-14 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
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.

Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society Annual Workshop
2019-06-15 09:00 - 16:30 | Mesquite Arts Center, 1527 N Galloway Avenue, Mesquite, TX, 75149, United States
Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society announces its Annual Workshop on Saturday, June 15th from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Mesquite Arts Center. Lisa Louise Cooke, an international genealogy speaker, will present the following programs:

How to Organize All this Genealogy Stuff
How to Use Evernote for Genealogy
The Genealogist’s Google Search Methodology
DNA Match with No Tree? No Problem

For more information on the programs as well as fees and registration deadlines go online to our Facebook page, go to the Mesquite Main Library’s genealogy desk for a brochure.

2019 Texas Institute of Genealogical Research
2019-06-09 08:00 - 2019-06-14 17:00 | Crowne Plaza Austin, 6121 North IH-35 @ 290, Austin, TX, 78752, United States
This year’s event adds a second track. In addition to a track focusing on Texas Research Essentials, coordinated by Kelvin Meyers, a second track will be offered. This second track is coordinated by J. Mark Lowe and will focus on Advanced Southern Research Techniques. Register soon.

Dallas Festival of Books & Ideas / Writing your Family History for Others
2019-06-01 11:00 - 12:00 | 8th Floor – Genealogy Section, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Writing your Family History for Others will provide expert advice on how to organize, write and present your family history. Join authors and editors Ed Millis, Shirley Sloat and Becky Villareal as they share their family history writing experiences and provide insight into how they made their family histories come alive.

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2019-05-18 14:00 - 16:45, 2019-04-20 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
2019-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
The DNA Special Interest Group will meet Thursday, May 16, 2019 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Stone Room, on the 7th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.
Jan Breshears Thomas will be presenting the DNA SIG program. She has worked with Ancestry’s ThruLines in depth over the past couple of months following more than 800 matches and put them on her tree. She will be discussing this new feature and a few other new features that Ancestry has begun using. If you have not spent much time looking at Ancestry recently, and especially if you have not worked on their DNA on Ancestry, you will be impressed with these additions.
She has developed a method that helps her to understand just what she is finding. As a result of using ThruLines, she believe she has knocked down a brick wall that has bugged her family since at least the 1950s: finding her grandfather’s grandparents on his mother’s side. She says “I began the search after my mother’s death. I have a letter from my grandfather to my mother that states that his mother was an orphan. I’ve mentioned in other DNA meetings that I was looking for them. It will be nice to tell everyone of my discoveries.”
See the DNA Interest Group page for more information on this group.

General Meeting
2019-05-04 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 annual officer election is held at this meeting and we need a quorum, so your attendance is very important.

Technology Special Interest Group
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
Using Google Docs and Slides to create family history presentations. We started the year learning about online resources to plan a family gathering or start a research project. So you have a family gathering scheduled (or not), what better way to organize and present pictures and new information you’ve gathered than with a slide show you can share with family members? This tutorial will show you how to put together a slide-show using the free Google Docs and Slides applications.

MacGen Reunion Group
2019-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Please note: This event was moved from its originally scheduled date to avoid conflicting with the Spring Seminar. Double check with the SIG leader about the location. Our topic this month is tricks and techniques for using spreadsheets to aid your genealogy research.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 | 7th Floor – Stone Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75202, United States
SIG members who attended the 2019 Genetic Genealogy Conference for FamilyTree DNA Project Administrators’ Conference last month in Houston will discuss what they learned including:
– FTDNA’s involvement with Law Enforcement (LE) DNA searches.
– New FTDNA features to be rolled out in the next year
– New book of techniques and case studies, edited by Debbie Parker Wayne: Advanced Genetic Genealogy.
– GDPR and the Project Administrator, i.e. things I didn’t know
– Big 500 to Big 700
– ISOGG ideas
– Tour of the FTDNA lab
– and more

2019 Spring Seminar: Michael D. Lacopo – A Method to our Madness
2019-04-13 10:00 - 16:30 | 1st Floor – Auditorium, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
We are pleased to welcome Michael D. Lacopo, D.V.M. as the featured speaker for our 2019 Spring Seminar, speaking on A Method to our Madness: Sound Methodology for Successful Research.
More details will be provided as they become available.

Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
2019-04-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Mesquite Main Library, 300 W Grubb Dr, Mesquite, TX, United States
State and Territorial Census – Underused Genealogical Tools. Join the Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society on Thursday, April 11th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Mesquite Main Library as Bernard Meisner shares the secrets to using the state and territorial census records in tracing your ancestors. Genealogists are familiar with the federal census records, however, the state and territorial censuses remain a much under-used resource because they were not taken systematically and centrally archived. In this presentation Bernard will discuss these other census reports and their value in filling in the gaps between the federal census years, and in providing additional information concerning your families, their occupations, and the places they lived. The public is invited and welcome. You do not have to be a member to attend. Come early for visiting and refreshments.
