DGS Newsletter, Volume 33, Number 8, November 2008 Page: 247
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GENERAL DGS NEWS
encourage you to attend anad see for yourself some
splendid near-term genealogical research capabilities.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Ft. Worth Library Genealogy, Shirley Apley.
DGS Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Under the support and guidance of DGS, a number of
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have been formed to
concentrate on specific areas of genealogy. The DGS
website at www.dallasgenealogy.org/special.htm can be
consulted for the most up-to-date listings of groups and
events with their email addresses, facilitators, dates,
times, and meeting places at the J. Erik Jonsson Central
Library. Meetings are free and open to the public.
Dec 11: (Thursday) 6:30 Writers' Interest Group
Meets in the McDermott Room on 8.
Dec 16: (Tuesday) 6:30 African American Genealogy
Interest Group
Meets in the East/West Rooms.
Dec 17: (Wednesday) 6:30 MacReunion Group
Meets in the McDermott Room on 8.
Jan 3: (Saturday) 9:30 Family Tree Maker
We are trying a new format where the participants can
bring questions and/or problems and hopefully receive
answers and solutions. The version of the software
being used is needed to get the correct help. That
information is available from the help menu of your
software. Meets in The Studio on 3.
Jan 3: (Saturday) 3:00 Internet for Genealogy Interest
Group
Jan 8: (Thursday) 6:30 Writers' Interest Group
Meets in the McDermott Room on 8.
Jan 10: (Saturday) 9:30 Digital Interest Group Meets
in the Hamon Room on 5.
Jan 10: (Saturday) 1:00 Computer Interest Group
Meets in the Hamon Room on 5.
Jan 10: (Saturday) 2:30 The Master Genealogist
Meets in the Hamon Room on 5.
Jan 17: (Saturday) 11:30 Brown Bag Group
Meets in the East/West Rooms.Jan 20: (Tuesday) 6:30 African American Genealogy
Interest Group
Meets in the East/West Rooms.
Learning OpportunityBeginning Legacy Family Tree
College - January, 2009Brookhaven
Learn to enter genealogical information using the
free, easy-to-learn Legacy Family Tree software. In
this class the students will learn how to enter
names, dates, places, events, and notes for
individuals; link individuals together in a family;
record source citations and repository information;
search a family file, and print reports.
This four session course will be taught by Glenn
Kinkade at Brookhaven College, January 20-29,
2009 on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1-
4:20 pm ,in Room M124.This class is FREE
older and reside in
Janice Groeneman,
860-4698.if you are 65 years of age or
Dallas County. To enroll call
Brookhaven College, at 972-If you have any questions about this class please
email Glenn Kinkade at glennkinkade@qmail.com
NEW AMSTERDAM
By Shirley Stertz Hawn
The Written Record of the Voyage of 1524 of
Giovanni da Verrazano as recorded in a letter to
Francis I, King of France, July 8th, 1524.. .
"Since the storm that we encountered in the
northern regions, Most Serene King, / have not
written to tell Your Majesty of what happened to the
four ships which you sent over the Ocean to
explore new lands, as I thought that you had
already been informed of everything--how we were
forced by the fury of the winds to return in distress
to Brittany with only the Normandy and the
Dauphine, and that after undergoing repairs there,
began our voyage with these two ships, equipped
for war, following the coasts of Spain, Your Most
Serene Majesty will have heard; and then-
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