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Volume 18, Number 5 (Issue 156) September-October 1994 Dallas, Texas
DGS Regional Conference 1994
Your Future in the Past
Everything you always wanted in a workshop.. .and more. Mark the weekend of 18-19 November as the highlight
of your fall schedule, for advance plans promise that this workshop is the biggest and best yet. We think we've taken
an excellent event and nudged it into something stupendous. Just wait until you see what's about to be unveiled.
Certainly, there's an outstanding array of lectures, but that doesn't even scratch the surface. Let's back up and start
over. In the first place we have a new name; we're now the DGS Regional Conference 1994/Your Future in the Past.
Fiddle-de-de, you say. Well, it does mean a lot - a regional conference lasts more than just one day and attracts
participants from outside the metropolitan area, even from outside the state. Our fall symposium has grown too much
to be contained. Let's acknowledge and enjoy the reach of our efforts.
Beginner' workshop on Saturday, 1 October
We have now spilled over to include a separate beginner's workshop on Saturday, 1 October. Not only that, but
these lucky beginners get a special one-time offer: they may choose to attend both the October and November sessions
for the same price. Now is the time for you to stir up your friends who "have been fixin' to get started" on their family
history. Never has there been a better opportunity. Our beginners get an introduction to this delicious madness called
genealogy; seven weeks into their research they a second dose. By then they should be as wrapped up as the rest of
us. (Perhaps one of them will be researching your lines....) Planned and directed by Sammie Townsend Lee, this one's
a winner! If you know of a novice who needs to be certain that all of his bases are covered, send him one of the
Beginner's Workshop flyers found at our library, or call and ask the staff to mail him one.
DGS Service Awards dinner on Friday, 18 November
It's about time! This most exciting new wrinkle in our fall plans is for everyone and happens Friday, 18 November,
the night before blast-off at the Convention Center. DGS takes a much-needed step into the community. We're
scheduling a wonderful evening at Royal Oaks Country Club. At 6:00 sharp we begin with a mix-and-mingle reception,
followed by dinner at 7:00 P.M. (and, oh-la-la, what the chef has promised), then sometiiing we've needed to do for
years - admit that we, like our ancestors, aren't here alone. Not to spill the beans, but don't be surprised if all those
volunteer hours someone or ones have endured for the good of the rest of us aren't finally recognized. There may or
may not be something outside our Society's usual interests that deserves special commendation as well. But you'll have
to be there to find out who gets our first "academy awards."
Beyond the expected pie or cheesecake are not one, but two, genealogical "desserts." Dr. Jerry Henderson, chief
archaeologist for Freedman's Cemetery, will dazzle us with a slide show of this fascinating project. She proves that
there is, indeed, a closet archaeologist lurking inside every genealogist. Judging by her own new-found interest in
tracking ancestors and descendants, Jerry stands as proof that there is also a closet genealogist inside every
archaeologist.
And last but hardly least as a highlight of our evening Dr. Rose-Mary Rumbley takes to the podium ready to send
us home in stitches. No one can follow Rose-Mary; she's one of a kind. The funniest woman in Dallas, she will debut
a new subject and a new book on local cemeteries, Here Lies Dallas. If you're not relaxed, happy, and ready to do
some serious genealogy at the end of all of this, then you were never meant for this pursuit.
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