Registration is open! Join us for Navigating Your Family History, the virtual 2024 TxSGS Family History Conference! On Friday and Saturday, November 1-2, TxSGS Live! features ten presentations by some of the top speakers in genealogy on research techniques, records, DNA, artificial intelligence, and more. That’s not all! These lectures will be recorded and combined with 31 additional prerecorded lectures from … Read more
Ladies–half our family trees–require well over 50 percent of our genealogical effort. Sometimes it seems more like 99 percent. We all know it’s not their fault–the records are stacked against them. In spite of the challenges and brick walls, we still want to know more about these women, what their lives were like, who they … Read more
The Archives and Information Services Division (ARIS) of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission is dedicated to preserving the documents and important records of Texas. With a collection exceeding 200 million pages of archival documents, only about 10 million are currently available digitally. This makes the physical library an essential destination for genealogists with … Read more
Solving genealogy problems requires a multi-pronged approach of seeking out new records, understanding the context of those records, and analyzing the information collected to illuminate new connections. As we move through those steps—seeking, understanding, and analyzing—we often discover that we need to gain deeper insights and improve our skills to solve the research challenge we’re … Read more