Program: “DCGS Member Personal Experiences Round Robin and Annual Business Meeting”

 

Members are welcome to share their genealogical accomplishments and discovers from the past year. Everyone is encouraged to bring their stories, heirlooms, and important documents for our popular annual “show and tell.” It’s time to “wow” us with all of your finds!

 

MAY MEETING

THURSDAY MAY 12, 2016

Inside this issue:

Denton County genealogical society

DCGS NEWS

                 MAY 2016

Volume 29 No. 8

The Denton County Genealogical Society meets on the second Thursday during the months on September-November and January-May.

6:30 P.M.

Denton Public Library, Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland St., Denton, TX 76201

www.genealogydentontexas.org

This will also be our annual business meeting and election of officers for the 2016-2018 term. The slate of officers from the Nominating Committee is as follows:

President: Terry Brantley

Vice-President/Program Chair: Perry Abernethy

Secretary: Jane Ingram

Treasurer: Linda Touraine

Librarian/Publicity: Laura Douglas

 

Nominations will be accepted from the floor.

DCGS Members Save Cemetery

Donna and Joe Spears, DCGS members, have been working for several years to save the Smith Family Cemetery located in Dallas County along Illinois Avenue and Interstate 45. Donna’s ancestor, Thomas Smith, bought the land on which the cemetery rests in 1851. He was buried there in 1866.

 

Using a deed from 1877, Donna and Joe sued the current owner, ADI Engineering, in Dallas County court to preserve the family burial plot of .22 acres, and is working with the Texas State Historical Commission

to have it designated an Historical Texas Cemetery.

 

Donna and Joe have fenced off the cemetery and have placed a granite marker listing the burials. There were three historical markers remaining on the site. Donna and Joe had a ground-penetrating study at the cemetery and it revealed at least 10 graves in the cemetery.

 

The Spears and the Smith Cemetery were featured in an article in the Dallas Morning News on Sunday, April 17, 2016.

Program: “DCGS Member Personal Experiences Round Robin and Annual Meeting”

DCGS Members Save Cemetery

 

 

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President’s Message

 

 

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April Minutes

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“I Have My Family Tree Back to Adam and Eve”

Treasurer’s Report

 

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News and Programs from the Library

 

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