DGS Newsletter, Volume 23, Number 3, March 1999 Page: 37
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DGS
NEWSLETTERMarch 1999
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Volume 23, Number 3 (Issue 197)
Locked In at the Library!
Saturday, March 20, 1999
Approximately sixty DGS
members will spend the first
hours of spring on the eighth
floor of the downtown Dallas
library. From 6:00 p.m. until
the wee morning hours hardy
genealogists will be scanning microfiche, copying
extracts from books and microfilm, perusing CD's
and online resources, and digging through dusty
files, all to help raise money for the society and find
those illusive ancestors! If staying up until the crack
of dawn in order to have a crack at those records
appeals to you, send in your registration today!
(See the February issue of this newsletter for the
lock-in registration form.) Refreshments will be
available and attendees may leave at any time.
This is a "members-only" activity, but if you'd like to
join the Dallas Genealogical Society, there is a
membership application inside this issue. (See
page 51.) Ask the people who attended last year's
lock-in and you'll find that it was an enjoyable and
rewarding way to spend the night, and benefit DGS!
Library Lock-In! March Meeting Topic 37
DGS News & Upcoming Events 39
1998 Writing Awards Winners 40
New Land Institute Makes Its Debut! 42
Dallas County Records Inventory Project 43
Article on Civil War Military Prisons 44
The Bulletin Board 46
News from the 8th Floor 48
Recent Acquisitions 48
Index to Genealogical Publications 49
Queries 50
Membership Application 51
DGS Calendar of Events 52March Meeting Features Lloyd Bockstruck
Special & Unusual Resources in the
Genealogy Department of the Dallas
Public Library
Beverly Johnston Holmes, VP Programs
You've just returned from a research trip to the
county courthouse where your ancestors lived, or to
the state archives of their residence, or to Salt Lake
City, and then discover that the records you've
found there had been at Dallas Public Library all the
time. Or, you think you've looked and found all the
information available about your family on the 8th
floor. How can you be sure that was the information
available?
At our March meeting Lloyd Bockstruck will
discuss the treasures that seem to be hidden to
many of us as well as unique and unusual resources
just waiting for us to discover them.
Perhaps it has been a while since you researched
at the downtown library for one of your family lines.
You might not be aware of the multitude of new
materials that has been added recently. Over the
past year there have some sizable bequests to the
Genealogy Department that have made possible the
purchase of many new records on microfilm,
microfiche and in print. While our monthly
Newsletter does list some recent acquisitions, we
are told that it is almost a year behind in keeping up
with these acquisitions.
You won't want to miss learning
about all these exciting acquisitions.
Please join us on Monday, 22
March 1999. Don't forget: the
meeting begins at 7:00 p.m., but we
have coffee, cookies and chat time
at 6:30 prior to the meeting. Visit U
the DGS Sales table too and see what's new!I
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