Stirpes March 2024

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

Stirpes March 2023 – Researching Your Ethnic Roots

TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Most genealogists can claim a number of ethnicities among their ancestors; we’re individual microcosms of the … Read more

Stirpes September 2022 – Storytelling: Content and Context

TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. Genealogists are, in a sense, sleuths. No detail is too small for investigation as we track … Read more

Coming soon! Storytelling: Content and Context

Join TxSGS or renew your membership by midnight, September 6, to receive the “Storytelling: Content and Context” issue of Stirpes, the Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. Here’s your chance to receive the September issue of Stirpes with your new or renewed TxSGS membership. With the theme “Storytelling: Content and Context,” this issue is packed with … Read more

Stirpes June 2022 – Using DNA to Make Family Connections

TxSGS’s latest issue of Stirpes, The Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society, has been released in digital format to all TxSGS individual members. Print editions will follow for Partner Societies, Subscribing Libraries, and those individual members who paid for a print version. DNA testing and analysis has revolutionized genealogical research, providing for many a … Read more

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