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. 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.
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.
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....
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See the Brown Bag Special Interest Group page for more information...
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…
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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…
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Read about past award recipients and nominate somebody you think is deserving on our Awards page. Registration for this event is required.
See the Roots Magic page for more information...
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December’s Topic: Using GedMatch, a review and a look at the new tools. – Mic Barnette
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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.
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.
Join us for a discussion of Jewish Surname books.
January’s topic: A look at Swedish records. How I solved a problem proving an ancestor with DNA. – Jean Larson.
Discusses and explores areas of research unique to the African American community. See the African American GIG page for more information.
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.
This month's Tech SIG is a live demonstration of HistoryGeo.com, a subscription website offered by Greg and Vickie Boyd, Arphax Publishing Company.
