Mid-Cities
Genealogical Society

Meetings
The Mid-Cities Genealogical Society meets the first Thursday of each month at the Euless Public Library, 201 N. Ector, Euless, Texas. Visitors are welcome.
6:30 p.m. – Social
7:00 p.m. – General Meeting

Register by March 1, 2012 for Early Bird discount: Registration Form

Date: Thursday, April 5th
Topic: Work Session: The 1940 Census
The data from the 1940 census will be released on April 1st/2nd. Bring your laptop computer to the meeting and we'll work together to find some new information concerning our families.

Date: Thursday, May 2nd
Speaker: Meg Hacker
Topic: NARA Online
On December 27th the National Archives and Records Administration launched a new portal to make its growing online catalog of more than 13 million records more easily accessible. NARA's Online Public Access Web site http://www.archives.gov/research/search/ makes searching the Archives' holdings much easier and more straightforward because it brings together three disparate databases and returns results that include all relevant information.

NARA implemented a search engine to crawl the Archives.gov, Archival Research Catalog and Access to Archival Databases. The results include all the contextual information of the records including date, type of material (whether picture or document or movie) and the physical location of the material. Users can click on the picture or movie and view it right there on the screen.