This information comes from Mary McCoy of the History & Genealogy Department of the Los Angeles Public Library. For further information, contact Mary at the email address / phone number given below. Barbara Algaze, JGSLA Librarian
Overcoming Brick Walls in Your Genealogy Research Central Library
Meeting Room A
Saturday, April 30, 12pm
Find out what to do when you hit a brick wall in your genealogy research. Linda Serna, APG, GSG, will provide ideas about how to approach the challenge, uncover overlooked clues and sources, and achieve breakthroughs in your research.
Sponsored by LAPL’s History & Genealogy Department. Free and open to the public.
Check out theLos Angeles Public Library’s Events Calendar to learn about other upcoming cultural and educational programs, including docent-led library tours (http://events.lapl.org/).
Validated parking is available at the Westlawn Garage at 524 S. Flower Street to Los Angeles Public Library cardholders. On Saturdays, parking is only $1 between 10am and 5:30pm with validation.
Mary McCoy
Librarian
History & Genealogy Department Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 228-7412
mmccoy@lapl.org
Pamela Weisberger is teaching a “getting started” course in researching one’s Jewish family history or ancestry at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles for four weeks (Thursday afternoons) starting February 10. If you know anyone who might be interested, click this line for more info:
Thursdays, February 10, 17, and 24, and March 3, 1:30–3:00 p.m. (4 sessions)
ADMISSION:
$100 General; $80 Skirball Members; $60 Full-Time Students
Registration opens Wednesday, December 22, 11:00 a.m.
Advance registration required; register on site, online, and by phone beginning Wednesday, December 22, 11:00 a.m.
Interested in exploring your roots and documenting your family history? Want to learn more about your immigrant ancestors and the lives they led, and build a family tree going backward (and forward) in time? It’s easier than you think! This course will teach you how to get started even if you have very little information to go on. Learn how to access documents and vital records in the United States and overseas, including census and naturalization records and passenger manifests from the nineteenth century onwards. Also discover how Internet resources and online databases, as well as library and microfilm research, on-site archival research, and family tree software, can all help you reveal more about your ancestry.
Instructor: Pamela Weisberger is First Vice President and Program Chair for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles and President and Research Coordinator for Gesher Galicia, Inc. She has produced several short films, including I Remember Jewish Drohobycz and Genealogy Anyone? She has conducted research in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Hungary, with a specialty in newspaper research. She holds a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS in broadcasting from Boston University.
Nancy Holden, former President of JGSLA and former Editor of Roots-Key, will teach a new class for JewishGen Education in February-March.
Ever dream of a genealogical search companion? JewishGen is offering an Independent Study class. Your topic, your schedule, your questions.
An Independent Study, JewishGen Education Course will be held February 15 – March 15 for researchers interested in research help in the United States or the Pale of Russia (Latvia to Southern Russia). This session will follow the format of other JewishGen Education classes using a Forum and one-on -one consultations via the internet.
The level of your knowledge and the Family you decide to research is not an issue. However, in order to qualify for this class we ask that you submit a paragraph about your project, your SURNAME, your towns, your goals.
The curriculum will be set around individual goals. Students will:
- Learn to write goals and objectives for success
- Organize research using Charts, Tables and Forms
- Learn the basics of computer searching
- Use computer techniques to improve communication skills on this forum
- Uploading, downloading and printing on the forum
- Use JewishGen to maximize success
- Learn the techniques of keeping records
- Learn to communicate on the JewishGen Discussion groups
Breaking Brick Walls techniques will be taught when necessary
This will be a Do-it-Yourself, computer-based, online seminar. Individual readings will be posted according to your research needs. To get the most out of this course, you will need 8-10 hours a week and commit to posting to the forum.
Limited to one search surname unless your ancestral couple married in Europe.
Enrollment limited.
Charge: $100.
For more information, check out the JewishGen Learning Center web page, or contact Nancy Holden by email
I just retrieved a January 2010 message from a great Dutch contact about this website: Trace Your Dutch Roots.
It was started in May 1945, partly supported by the Dutch Government and partly by private donors. It covers everyone, not just Jews. My contact sent me the newspaper notice of my parents’ engagement in Amsterdam on 14 July 1910: I had no idea!
She also sent the wedding announcement. I had that date, but the announcement shows the locale as well. Thought I’d share this with you all for the benefit of our members. I intend to research the site thoroughly for my family members. Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving to y’all!
– Henriette Moëd ROTH
You might be interested in an upcoming program being shown this week on CNN International channel about a Polish husband and wife who were childhood sweethearts, and later became neo-Nazi skinheads. I hope you are still reading, because the wife followed up on a memory from childhood, went to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and discovered she was Jewish! (The Jewish Historical Institute is where Yale Reisner and Anna Przybyszewska-Drozd work. Both Yale and Anna were at our conference in July.)
Program description can be found on the CNN video site.
This program will be playing at various times this week. Check your local listings. Some play times are in the middle of the night, so you might want to DVR the program.
Sandy Malek
