FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCT. 4-5, DAY SESSION SPEAKERS DR. RABBI JUAN MARCOS BEJARANO GUTIERREZ, B’Nei Anusim for Educaon; Author; Engineer DR. ROBERTO R. CALDERON, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, UNT; Author JOHN CAMPBELL, Genealogist, focus on South Texas and Northeastern Mexico DR. DAVID CARLSON, Archivist, Bexar County Spanish Archives JUAN P. CARMONA, Social Studies teacher; Dual Enrollment Instructor, South Texas College EVAN CHRISTENSEN, AG, Professional Genealogist, Ancestry Pro Genealogists GARY COKER, Park Superintendent, Mission Tejas State Park ARTURO CUELLAR, Accredited Genealogist, Lan American Specialist, familysearch.org SCHELLY TALALAY DARDASHTI, Genealogist, Journalist, U.S. Genealogy Advisor for My Heritage.com DR. JOSE G. ESPERICUETA, Educator, UD; Researcher Mexican naonal identy, immigraon, Nahuatl MOISES GARZA, AUTHOR, Creator of Mexican Genealogy and We Are Cousins blog RICHARD GONZALEZ, RJ Gonzales Literary Services, LLC; Author of Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas DAVID GONZALEZ GUAJARDO, Author, Researcher, Speaker with focus on Judaism history and studies GERI HAGLER, Teacher, Science and Genec Genealogy helping adoptees find biological families DR. MACARIO HERNANDEZ, Principal, Trini Garza Early College High School, Mountain View College MANUEL HINOJOSA, FAIA, Culture Designer and Preservaon Architect DR. GEORGE KEATON, Jr., Founder, Remembering Black Dallas, Inc. JACOB MANGUM, Project Development Librarian, Libraries’ Portal to Texas History, UNT ART MARTINEZ DE VARA, Esq., Author, specializing in colonial, Mexican and Republican Texas HON. DR. MIGUEL A. MAZARAMBROZ, former Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, Historian CINDY A. MEDINA, Writer, Genealogist History Acvist, Publicist, focus State of Chihuahua, MX MARIO NAJERA, Reree and Coal Miner’s son, Researcher of coal miners in Malakoff, TX DR. LOLA ORELLANO NORRIS, Associate Professor, Spanish and Translaon, Texas A&M Intl University ANNE E. PETERSON, Curator of Photographs, DeGolyer Library, SMU DR. MANUEL PINA, Associate Professor, Educator Texas A&M RICKY D. REYES, AIA, Architect; Author of Texas First: Prayer: The Four Direcons of the Universe Prayer ALMA ROSALES, IBM Execuve Reree, Speaker, Family Historian SARAH SALDANA, Esq., former Director of U.S. ICE; US Aorney for U.S. Northern District of Texas PEDRO SALINAS FLORES, Councilman, Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas JENNY SWEENEY, Educaon Specialist, Naonal Archives at Ft. Worth BECKY VILLAREAL, Rered teacher; Author of young adult and children’s books re genealogy/family history FRIDAY, OCT. 4, EVENING RECEPTION HON. DOMINGO GARCIA, J.D. DOMINGO GARCIA LAW OFFICE Businessman, LULAC Naonal President, Polician, Community Leader, Acvist HON. DR. ELBA GARCIA, D.D.S. ELBA GARCIA DENTAL CLINIC Dallas County Commissioner, Former City of Dallas Mayor Pro Tem, Community Leader SATURDAY, OCT. 5, EVENING BANQUET DR. MIGUEL VILAR Sr. Program Officer, Naonal Geographic Society and Lead Scienst for Genographic Project, a mul-year study that aims to map human migraon paerns by collecng and analyzing DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. By training he is a Molecular Anthropologist and Science Writer. GLORIA CAMPOS, EMCEE Former WFAA-TV News Anchor, three-me recipient of the TV/Broadcast News Award of Excellence. Lifeme member of HOGAR de Dallas. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS HONORING OUR ANCESTORS: A 500-YEAR JOURNEY BACK TO HERNÁN CORTÉS Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 3-5, 2019 OMNI Dallas-Park West, 1590 LBJ Fwy @ Luna Road, Dallas, Texas 75234 40TH ANNUAL TEXAS HISPANIC GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL CONFERENCE