Visit the SAGHS Official Apparel Store

If you've noticed several of our members wearing Oxford and polo shirts with the SAGHS logo and wondered where you may buy one, visit our official apparel store online or call their toll-free phone number 1-800-587-1541. Be sure to tell the representative you're calling about the store txsaghs.

Lisa Louise Cooke Headlines Our 2026 Fall Seminar

We're thrilled to announce that Lisa Louise Cooke — host of the popular Genealogy Gems podcast and YouTube channel and author of The Genealogist's Google Toolbox — will be our featured speaker at the SAGHS Fall Seminar on Saturday, October 17, 2026.

The topics she'll be covering:

  • How to Reopen and Work a Genealogical Cold Case
  • The Genealogist’s Google Search Methodology in the AI Era
  • How to Make AI Your Personal Genealogy Assistant
  • How to Organize All This Genealogy Stuff!
The venue is still be finalized and as soon as we can we will be opening up registrations both online and in-person, In the meantime note October 17 on your calendar now, and more information is coming as it becomes available.

Family Memories of World War II

New Book Just Released!
A collection of family memories in 52 articles by 37 authors.  The articles describe training and combat actions, land battles, naval engagements, island assaults, air contests, and POW experiences. The book includes multiple articles and references to guide further individual WWII genealogy research. Soft cover, 198 pages, full color covers, fully indexed by names, military units and ships, battles and locations. 
 

Looking for Genealogy Resources?

Our library collection has over 19,000 titles.

Our library catalog is online and searchable by Media Type, Subject, Location, Title and more.

About our Library Collection


Our Heritage Journal

 
Now is the time for you, the SAGHS membership, to provide help of your own to Our Heritage. The purpose of this journal, to quote our Editor Emeritus Larry Luckett, is “to provide members with a venue in which to share their stories.” We need you, the members, to contribute your stories for Our Heritage to 
Publications@txsaghs.org.
 
For information about how to get published in the next Our Heritage journal, please click here .

These subscriptions are available on all our computers in both our Library and the Dwyer Center:
 
  • Ancestry.com Library Edition
  • Fold3
  • Find My Past
  • American Ancestors
  • History GEO
  • Family Search Library 
 
 

Obituaries update
 
The obituaries list from San Antonio newspapers has been updated to include deaths in 1961.

Visit our Library!

 Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm
Monday 10 am - 4 pm
Wednesday 10 am - 4 pm
Saturday 10 am - 4 pm
 
We are located at:
911 Melissa Dr, San Antonio, TX 78213
Convenient location, great parking, and easy to find.  
From I-410, exit onto Blanco Rd north. 
Go 3/4 mile and turn left onto Melissa Dr.
 
The Dwyer Center is the first building on the north side of Melissa Dr, and the Library is the second building on the north side of Melissa Dr.  Please use the first driveway and park in any of the 28 marked parking spaces.
 
 
 
 
Phone: (210) 342-5242
Days closed: New Years Day, Easter Sunday, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Founders Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Fall Seminar, Thanksgiving Eve and Day, Christmas Eve and Day.

 
 
 
 
 


Upcoming
31 August
SAGHS Annual Membership Renewal -LAST DAY TO PAY & Not listed in the Membeship Book
August 31st is the last day to pay dues to avoid cancellation or removed from the annual membership book.

7 September
SAGHS Library Closed for Labor Day
The SAGHS Library will be closed for Labor Day Monday, September 7th and will re-open on Wednesday, September 9th from 10 am - 7 pm.

19 September
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
SAGHS Library Closed During General Membership Meeting
The SAGHS Library will be closed from 10 am - 12 pm during the General Membership Meeting and re-open at 12:00 pm upon completion of the meeting.  It will remain open until 4 pm.

19 September
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
SAGHS General Membership Meeting
Today is the General Membership Meeting. SAGHS Library will open after the Monthly Meeting.