DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Jewish Group
2017-02-15 10:00 - 13:00, 2017-01-18 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

MacGen Reunion
2017-02-11 13:00 - 15:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

RootsTech
2017-02-08 - 2017-02-11 | TX

General Meeting
2017-02-04 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 speaker will be Pat Gordon who will discuss Researching Female Ancestors.
Pat Gordon’s interest in genealogy began innocently enough when she decided in the late 1980s to find where her maternal great grandmother was buried in Colorado after dying from tuberculosis. She soon found the answer to that question, but by then she had other questions that needed answering. And the questions keep coming faster and faster, much faster than the answers. Since she likes to place her ancestors in social context to their time, she does more than collect names. She spends a lot of time learning about the history and places in which they lived. In addition to online research, she spends much time hanging out in courthouses and libraries and considerable time in university archives.
As a former newspaper reporter with The Dallas Morning News and recently retired journalism lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington, she especially finds researching old newspapers a favorite pastime. She served two terms as president and one as vice president of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society.
She holds a B.A. in Journalism and M.S. in Media Studies. She was an original faculty member of Angelina College Genealogy Conference in Lufkin and continues to be a frequent speaker. She has also presented all-day seminars at various Texas genealogical societies.
Syllabus

Technology Special Interest Group
2017-02-02 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

Brown Bag Special Interest Group
2017-01-28 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-12-24 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-11-26 10:30 - 13:00, 2016-10-22 10:30 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

African American Genealogical Interest Group
2017-01-21 14:00 - 17:00, 2016-12-17 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-11-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2016-10-15 14:00 - 16:45 | 1st Floor – West Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

DNA Special Interest Group
2017-01-19 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

General Meeting
2017-01-07 10:30 - 12:30 | 7th Floor – O’Hara Hall – J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
Note that this month’s meeting will be held in the O’Hara room on the 7th floor.
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.
Brandon Murray, a librarian from the Dallas Public Librarian, will be speaking to us about the collection of materials at the Dallas History & Archives Division. This collection is one of the largest of its kind in the nation: The holdings span many aspects of the diverse history of not only Dallas and the surrounding area, but the entire state of Texas.
After Brandon’s talk, he will take our group on a tour of the newly remodeled floor. Highlights of the collection and floor include the photo lab, the digitized collections and Dallas County records, oral histories, photographs, manuscript collection and finding guide and fine books division.
Brandon Murray has been a librarian at the J Eric Jonssen Library since June, 2015. Before that, from 2012 to 2015, he was at Southern Methodist University, where he created metadata for digitized photographic collections intended for the Central University. He also posted images and metadata to social media sites including Tumblr, Flickr and Reddit, and collaborated with colleagues on creating or modifying cataloging and metadata guidelines. He was also responsible for proofreading and generating content to promote the Central University Library Digital Collections. Brandon Murray holds a Master of Library & Information Science degree from Southern Methodist University.

Technology Special Interest Group
2017-01-05 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Presenter: Suzan Youger
Topic: Speech Recognition Software

Jewish Special Interest Group
2016-12-21 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-11-16 10:00 - 13:00, 2016-10-19 10:00 - 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Barbara and Mic will provide information from the FTDNA Project Administrator’s Conference.

Roots Magic SIG
2016-12-11 13:30 - 14:30 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States

Annual Awards Luncheon
2016-12-10 11:30 - 14:00 | TX
Please join us in the recently renovated O’Hara Hall on the 7th floor of the J. Erik Jonsson Library for our annual Holiday Awards Luncheon on Saturday, December 10.
This event is free for current DGS members and $15 for guests.
Advance registration is required: Register Online Now or Print and Mail the Registration Form
We could use some help… Volunteer Now!

PROGRAM
11:30 Registration & Hospitality
12:00 Catered Luncheon
1:00 Presentation of Awards
NOMINATIONS
Visit our Awards page. There you can nominate people for any of the awards – as well as see who has received awards in the past!

MacGen Reunion Group
2016-12-03 14:00, 2016-10-08 13:00 | 8th Floor – McDermott Room, J. Erik Jonnson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States

Technology Special Interest Group
2016-12-01 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Presentor: Suzan Younger
Topic: On-line Educational Opportunities
There are excellent websites which offer high quality, online classes as live presentations or as on-demand viewing. Access to the presentations may be free, by subscription or as a one time fee. We will review and discuss several of these educational programs, beginning with the “Lynda.com” website offered as a free service to holders of Dallas Public Library cards. Other sites to be discussed include the National Archives (NARA), FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, FamilyTreeWebinars.com, and more.

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
We will explore the new DNA book: Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Debbie Parker Wayne and Blaine Bettinger.
This book is available through the National Genealogical Society for $30.06 (members) or $36.05 (non-members).

General Meeting
2016-11-05 10:30 - 13:00 | 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 presentation is “Finding German Ancestors: Their Information is Not All on the Internet” by Bernard N. Meisner, Ph.D.
Download The Handout
To locate records about your family in Germany it is essential to determine their home town through an exhaustive search of U.S. records, since most German records are maintained at the local level (town or parish). Also, due to wars and boundary changes your family’s records may now be located in another state or country. In this presentation I will review how to identify the home town, demonstrate the use of finding aids to identify where civil and church records might be located, and provide links to online resources for correspondence and reading/interpreting German printing and handwriting.
Bernard Meisner, Ph.D. is a genealogist and lecturer based in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He began researching his family over 25 years ago and enjoys sharing lessons learned from those experiences, including his mistakes. Although he knew only one grandparent (his maternal grandfather) he has successfully identified all of his great-great grandparents and several triple- and quadruple-great grandparents. He is the president and social media chair of the Mid-Cities Genealogical Society, and is a member of the National Genealogical Society and the Texas State Genealogical Society.
Bernard recently retired from the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters where he was the Acting Chief of the Science & Technology Services Division. He is certified as a consulting meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society and holds a teaching certificate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the Universities of Texas, Oklahoma and St. Thomas (Houston). Bernard earned a B.S. in physics/German from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Hawaii.

Technology Special Interest Group
2016-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
Presenter: Bruce Moore
When working with large numbers of photos, traditional file system level folders and names can quickly become unwieldy. Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Difikam and Apple Photo are a few of the photo library management tools that make it easy to tag images keywords, add descriptions and captions, and automatically recognize faces in larger numbers of images. This 90-minutes session will provide an overview of Adobe Lightroom and how to use it for three major workflow cases:

Scanning a set of images and identifying people in each image
Correcting exposure, contrast and other problems on a group of images from a single roll of film
Publishing a set of images to Flickr, Facebook and a website

DNA Special Interest Group
2016-10-20 18:00 - 20:00 | 5th Floor – Hamon Room, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young, Dallas, TX-Texas, 75201, United States
See the DNA Special Interest Group page for more information….
