1995-03 | Volume 19, Number 2, Issue 159 (March)

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Title: Dallas Genealogical Society Newsletter

Created: March - April 1995

Editor: Mary A. Johnson

• In this issue

Articles:

CONTENTS

• Celebrating 40 years of family history with Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, 1995 DGS Spring Seminar
• General Information
• Notice of upcoming DGS meetings
  • March Meeting: Leslie Smith Collier, Digging Deeper into Land Records: The Lay of the Land
  • April Meeting: Sammie Townsend Lee - Those Three Dreaded Words - The Courthouse Burned!!
  • May Meeting: Richard Miller - Speaking From The Grave - Quotations from the Dead
• 1995 DGS Calendar of Events
• The President's Message & Treasurer's Report
• Bulletin Board
  • Genealogical Institute of Texas
  • Sources for Canadian Researchers
  • Census help available
  • Spring Workshop – The Civil War
  • National Archives on the move
  • Keeping up with the Joneses!
  • Genealogical help wanted
  • Calling Louisiana researchers
  • Colorado research guide available
  • South Carolina comes to Fort Worth
• FGS Forum discount subscriptions available to DGS Membership
  • Subscription form
• DGS P.I.G. (Professional Interest Group) is Alive & Kicking
• Beginners Corner: Interpreting old documents by Leslie Smith Collier
• The Great Salt Lake research trip by Shirley Sloat
• Price changes on DGS publications
• DGS forms records preservation committee
• DGS initiates voice mail
• Tape library underway
• First Families of Texas certificates offered
• Washington D.C. trip
• Urban research: Outwitting the unindexed 1910 enumeration of a metropolitan area by Mary A. Johnson
• Guide to resources in the Genealogical Section of the Dallas Public Library: Texas Confederate pension applications
• Queries (Albertson, Allen, Bennett, Black, Blaine, Burton, Carr, Crane, Decker, Dudensing, Elam, Farrand, Frank, Garner, Gilmer, Goode, Graves, Griffith, Groves, Gurley, Hastings, Heilman, Hull, Jackson, Jones, Knox, Lacks, Lauderdale, Ludtke, McCutcheon, Miller, Minschew, Moore, Mullins, Pickett, Pirkle, Pirtle, Plotts, Robinson, Sanders, Simpson, Smith, Stovall, Stuart, Thompson, Tolbert, Willis, Wilson, Womble, Wright)
• Professional researchers
• New genealogical society formed (Calhoun County Mississippi)
• DGS membership report - 1035 Members
• Educational opportunity for genealogists

Publisher: Dallas Genealogical Society

Format: Paper; Number of Pages: 24; Height (Inches): 11; Width (Inches): 8.5; Binding Type: Stapled;

Language: English

Rights Holder: Copyright – Dallas Genealogical Society