2005-01 | Volume 29, Number 1, Issue 252 (January)

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Title: Dallas Genealogical Society Newsletter

Created: January 2005

Editor: Happi McQuirk

• Inside This Issue

Articles:

CONTENTS

• Installation of 2005 Board at 50th Anniversary Banquet
• President's column
• Welcome to our new members
• Happenings around DPL's 8th Floor volunteer desk
• 2005 DGS Society Programs
  • General meetings
    • January: Eldin Edgin - What to Do When Records Conflict
    • February: William "Bill" Dow Jr - My Liles Who Fell Through the Cracks
    • March: Glenn Kinkade - Indirect Evidence
  • African American Genealogy Interest Group AAGIG
  • Computer Interest Group CIG
  • DGS Lock-in
• Somos Primos Newsletter
• New genealogy site on the web
• From Our Readers
• Wanna be published? (The Dallas Journal)
• Richland College for Spring 2005
• DGS Internet Workshops
• Mountain View College for Spring 2005
• Brookhaven College for Spring 2005
• Writing Awards Presentations
  • Division I: Family history
    • No entries
  • Division II: Articles or books of historical or genealogical interest
    • First place: Terri Bradshaw O'Neill: William Bradshaw of Orange and Alamance Counties, North Carolina: A Case Study
    • Honorable Mention: Rosemary M. Schoolfield: Lewis McClain, Georgia Pioneer–An Overview
    • Honorable Mention: Mary Noel Peters Wood: An Ordinary Hery, My Dad–Joseph Franklin Peters, M.D., 1909-1980
  • Division III: Family stories, memories, or character sketches
    • First Place: Anna Rose Barry: Meet the Barry Family in Rosita, Colorado
    • Honorable Mention: Lela Evans: Mitchel Wilburn McCarley
    • Honorable Mention: Philip Jones, Jr.: The Toliver Family Trees
  • Division IV: Book of compiled material: church, court, census, cemetery–abstracted from original records
    • First Place: Judy Allen Knight: Historic W.V.S. Allen Cemetery, Tarrant County, Texas
    • Honorable Mention: Alan Miller: Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children, Apprentices from 1784 to 1902
    • Honorable Mention: Peggy Sutherlin: 1880 Upshur County, Texas Census
    • Honorable Mention: Barbara Kerfoot Smyth Turner: Letters from Home: The Letters and Lives of Ludlow St. Claire Smyth and Lucie Webb Laws
    • Honorable Mention: Laurie G. Wharton: Diaries of S. S. Wright of New Haven, Vermont, Written in the Vermont Register & Farmers' Almanacs, 1857-1899
• Library Awards Presentation
  • Award of Excellence: Tresa Tatyrek and Elizabeth Deihl
• DGS Annual Awards
  • Volunteer of the Year Award: Alvin Harper
  • Award of Merit: Gene Burris
  • Distinguished Service Award: John Wylie, CG
  • Heritage Preservation Award: Carole C. Ruska, Barbara Ware, Suzan Younger
• Annual Reports, June 2003 through December 2004
  • President, Tresa Tatyrek
  • Executive VP, Fundraising, Shirley Sloat
  • VP, Education and Programs, John Wylie
  • VP, Membership, Bill Deal
  • VP/Editor, The Dallas Journal, Ann M. Williams
  • VP/Editor, DGS Newsletter, Marti Fox
  • Treasurer, Grover Livingston
  • Recording Secretary, Patricia Haynes
  • Directors of Sales, Betty and Alan Miller
  • Director of Mailing, Betty Jean Steinke
  • Director of Publications, Ed Millis
  • Director of Publicity, Mel Brewer
  • Director, Volunteer Coordinator, Susan Morris
  • Parliamentarian, Rose Alyce Beasley
  • Mail Administrator, Mary Ruth McKenney
  • Computer Interest Group CIG, Gene Burris
  • African American Genealogy Interest Group AAGIG, Lois Lilly
• Volunteers Needed (WWI draft records)
• Outstanding Service Certificate of Appreciation, Tresa Tatyrek
• New acquisitions in genealogy by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
• Regional and National Events
  • Family Tree Maker Workshop
  • Mid-Cities Genealogical Society
  • McKinney Memorial Library
  • Hot Springs Village Genealogical Society, Arkansas
  • Brookhaven College
  • NGS Conference
  • Great Obituary Writers' Conference
  • HOGAR
  • FGS/UGA Conference
• Regional Contacts
  • Texas State Genealogical Society
  • Central Texas Genealogical Society
  • Collin County Genealogical Society
  • Dallas Historical Society
  • Duncanville Genealogical Society
  • East Texas Genealogical Society
  • Family Tree Maker SIG
  • Grand Prairie Genealogical Society
  • HOGAR de Dallas
  • Irving Genealogical Society
  • Lancaster Genealogical Society
  • Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society
  • Mid-Cities Genealogical Society
  • North Texas PC Users Group
  • Peters Colony Chapter of the DAR
  • Texins Genealogy Club
• Spring 2005 Lecture Series
  • 5 Feb 2005, Claire Mire Bettag, CGRS, CGL, Genealogy Sources and Methods
  • 5 Mar 2005, Emily Croom, BA and MA (history), BA (music), Unpuzzling Your Past
  • 2 Apr 2005, Dr. Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, Five Ways to Prove Who Your Ancestor Was
  • DGS Lecture registration form
• General information
• DGS Calendar of Events

Publisher: Dallas Genealogical Society

Format: Paper; Number of Pages: 20; Height (Inches): 11; Width (Inches): 8.5; Binding Type: Stapled;

Language: English

Rights Holder: Copyright – Dallas Genealogical Society