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#to educate by creating, fostering, and maintaining interest in genealogy;
#to educate by creating, fostering, and maintaining interest in genealogy;
#to assist and support the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, Texas; and
#to support the genealogy section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas, Texas; and
#to collect, preserve, copy, and index information relating to Dallas County and its early history.
#to preserve information relating to Dallas County and its early history.


===Education===
====Education====


*The society meets monthly providing quality genealogical speakers.  These meetings are open to the general public as well as to members.
*The society meets monthly providing quality genealogical speakers. These meetings are open to the general public as well as to members.
*The society offers 2 full-day workshops (a Spring Lecture and a Fall Lecture) plus a 2-day Summer Symposium each year.
*The society offers 3 full-day seminars each year, which feature nationally recognized genealogical speakers.
*The society maintains an online archive of quarterly and annual Society journals published since 1957.


===Support===
====Support====


*The society raises funds to the acquistion of books and materials for the Genealogy Section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
*The society raises funds for the acquisition of materials for the Genealogy Section of the Central Dallas Library.
*Society members volunteer at the library
*Society members staff a help desk in the Genealogy Section of the library.


===Preservation===
====Preservation====


*Society members have  collected records of significance to Dallas County.
*Society members have  collected records of significance to Dallas County.
*The Society publishes these collected records<br>
*The Society publishes these collected records<br>
*After publishing quarterly and annual journals since 1957, in 2013 the Society is launching a new scholarly publication, Pegasus: the Journal of the Dallas Genealogical Society" that expands its area of genealogical interest to North Texas.
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