Events

Topic: The History of Witches! Speaker: Dr. Julie Schellen Very timely for the Halloween season! Come learn about a cultural phenomenon with a longstanding, cross-cultural history. Dr. Julie Schellen, who holds the Certified Genealogist® credential and is a current college faculty member, writer, and researcher. She recently published a case study in The Maine Genealogist.…
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Join the Grand Prairie Genealogical Society in person or virtually as Ruth Lloyd discusses Jewish Ancestry and the Second Generation of Holocaust Survivors.

Unlock Your Past with TxSGS Registration is open! Join us, and Unlock Your Past at the virtual 2022 TxSGS Family History Conference! On Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, TxSGS Live! features ten presentations by some of the top speakers in genealogy on research techniques, records, DNA, and more. That’s not all! These lectures will be recorded and combined with 32 additional prerecorded…
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Join Bernard Meisner as he discusses “Surname Distribution Maps: A Valuable Tool for Genealogical Research”

Patti Huff Smith will be walking through Three Case Studies on Solving Difficult Problems. The meeting is free to the public, be sure to register in advance.

Hear Dorina Alaniz de Thomas, Phd discuss "Death Records: When Death Certificates are not Available" at the Cedar Hill November Meeting.

The Van Zandt County Genealogical Society will have its regular meeting on Saturday, November 26, at 2:00 p.m. at the main Van Zandt County Library, 317 First Monday Lane, Canton, TX.  As always, the public is encouraged to attend.   The program will be Show and Tell, which the Society hosts at its November meeting each year. …
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Join the Grand Prairie Genealogical Society in person or virtually as Patti Gillespie discusses Armchair Mysteries.

Learn about the ins and outs of family history scanning and digitization with Genealogy & History Manager Stephanie Bennett.