Denton County Genealogical Society

06/13/2026

FamilySearch just added 102 million new chances to find your ancestors. With records from 22 countries, one of them could hold the answers you're looking for.

Search through nearly 88 million vital, church, and probate records from the United Kingdom, nearly 12 million civil and church records from Mexico, and more than a million civil and church records from both Belgium and the Philippines. Plus, even more additions from Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and the United States.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-records-june-2026?cid=SO-00061635

Which country are you hoping to find records from?

06/08/2026

Wow!

Can anyone top THIS family tree?😲Two descendants of this tree created by Charles Lippincott, published in 1880, visited this week to "show and tell" this amazing piece of . We are told there is a copy of it hanging in the Newberry Library in Chicago. Each little leaf speck is a name. The red dots are the initial children's names. Click on the following link to see a part of it zoomed out a bit. https://www.newberry.org/collection/subjects/genealogy-and-local-history

06/02/2026

Hey DCGS members and friends, Please check your emails for the 2026-27 Programming Survey sent out today. One member said it went to her spam email for some reason, so be sure to check there.

06/01/2026

FREE access to MyHeritage immigration records this week....

To celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States and the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence, MyHeritage is offering free access to US immigration records from June 1 to 5. This free access includes more than 50 immigration collections … Continue reading →

06/01/2026

It's National Immigrant Heritage Month! New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has some cool events planned to celebrate:

Check out a A Selected Bibliography for Immigration and Naturalization Research here: https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/knowledgebase/selected-bibliography-immigration-and-naturalization-research

Watch one or both FREE videos:

Preserving Your New York Story: Discovering Another Chapter of Immigrant History at Castle Garden
Presented by Stephen Lean
https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/video/preserving-your-new-york-story-discovering-another-chapter-immigrant-history-castle-garden

and

Preserving Your New York Story: The Ellis Island Experience
Presented by Stephen Lean
https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/video/preserving-your-new-york-story-ellis-island-experience

05/29/2026

Learn the ins and outs of visiting repositories for genealogical research across New York State. This presentation features examples, tips on how to best prepare before leaving your home, suggestions on what equipment to pack, and strategies on how to best fulfill your research goals.

Learn the ins and outs of visiting repositories for genealogical research across New York State.

05/29/2026

Are you finding all the New York records on Ancestry.com that you need? Susan R. Miller, NYG&B Director, Publications, will demonstrate efficient ways to find New York records on the site. She will also show how to learn if records for the location of interest are included in the collection being searched.

This is a free online webinar, but registration is required.

Are you finding all the New York records on Ancestry.com that you need? Susan R. Miller, NYG&B Director, Publications, will demonstrate efficient ways to find New York records on the site.

05/27/2026

Really great podcast explaining the concepts of negative search vs. negative evidence. If you've ever been confused, this might help.

RLP 409: Negative Search Results vs. Negative Evidence: When Nothing Found Means Something May 11, 2026 Posted by Nicole Elder Dyer Podcast On this episode of Research Like a Pro, Diana and Nicole discuss how to transform unsuccessful searching into powerful proof by distinguishing between negative....

05/26/2026

America250 is more than a national celebration. It is an opportunity for people to discover how their own families fit into the American story.

As interest in U.S. history continues to grow leading up to 2026, genealogy and family history organizations are uniquely positioned to help communities make meaningful personal connections to the past.

To help support those efforts, we created a free America250 toolkit filled with program ideas, partnership suggestions, outreach strategies, and planning resources designed for genealogy organizations and societies.

Download the free toolkit: https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/america250/

05/24/2026

Do you have Polaroids?

Polaroid pictures are probably tucked somewhere in your twentieth-century photo collection. The Polaroid Corporation changed photography forever when Edwin Land introduced the first commercial instant camera in 1948. Those earliest instant pictures were black-and-white, and part of the appeal was th...