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
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
Host: Susan Kaufman Guest: Linda Reynolds, Director, East Texas Research Center East Texas, and Nacogdoches in particular, has historically served as a gateway into Texas, an important point in the migration of Texas pioneers for over 150 years. The East Texas Research Center (ETRC) preserves the history of this region through manuscript materials, photographs, books, … Read more
Take genealogy research to the next level – virtually! The 2023 TxSGS Family History Conference, Roots and Branches: Climbing Your Family Tree seeks to help hundreds of attendees discover the tools needed to answer their genealogy questions. TxSGS Live! showcases 10 speakers on November 10-11 and on-demand sessions through February 10. Featuring 29 speakers, the … Read more