A message was left on the JGSLA phone line from a woman in Santa Barbara who is requesting help from someone in finding out about her family, many of whom were lost in the Holocaust.

If this is something you would be interested in, please contact me for details at president@jgsla.org.

Content Acquisition

A Content Acquisitionist is a consultative-sales and business development role working within the US Content Acquisition team to bring a steady stream of high-value historical records to Ancestry.com members in the US and around the world.

Key aspects of the role include:

1. Supporting US content acquisition activities by developing and managing relationships with archives, libraries, government institutions and other content owners,
2. Negotiating contract terms for record access and securing agreements with new partners and content owners, and
3. Coordinating with relevant teams throughout the business to ensure effective launches of newly acquired record collections.

Responsible to deliver results that meet quarterly/annual targets in an assigned geographic territory. This position is based in Provo, Utah with exceptions for highly-qualified candidates to work remotely elsewhere in the United States.

For more details go here: http://corporate.ancestry.com/careers/

JGSLA is extremely pleased to share with all our members the happy news that Roots-Key, our Society journal, was awarded the Outstanding Publication recognition by IAJGS at the conference banquet on July 15, 2010. The award was accepted by Roots-Key’s editors, David B. Hoffman and Sonia Hoffman. The editors also want to acknowledge the tremendous contributions to Roots-Key by its previous editor, Nancy Holden, who is also award-winning in our eyes and hearts!

The language of the award is as follows:

Outstanding Publication Award
Presented to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles

This award, for the second time, recognizes that for many years, Roots-Key, the Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, has been consistent in providing original articles and book reviews with high quality insight into world-wide and functional aspects of Jewish genealogy, not only to genealogists in Los Angeles but also to the broader Jewish genealogical community.

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
Michael Goldstein, President
July 2010

We can all agree that this award was well-deserved! Heartiest congratulations to the editors and all who have worked with them to publish this outstanding journal!

Sandy Malek
President, JGSLA

Award Winner Hal Bookbinder

On July 15, 2010, the IAJGS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD was presented to our member and Board of Directors member, Hal Bookbinder.

The inscription on the award read as follows:

This award is given to you in deep appreciation for your many contributions to the world of Jewish genealogy. For over 20 years you have demonstrated your dedication to helping all Jewish family researchers through your leadership at annual conferences, as a Director and President of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, as creator and editor of the Jewish Genealogy Yearbook and a author of numerous articles and presentations on a wide range of genealogical topics.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES
MICHAEL GOLDSTEIN, PRESIDENT
JULY 2010

Well deserved, Hal! Congratulations from all of us!

This just in!   We have products and materials available from our recent 30th Annual 2010 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy hosted right here in Los Angeles.

CDs, DVDs, MP3 Audio Files, and other materials are available direct when you print out the order form (see link below).  Or, to make it simple, ALL MATERIALS (audio only) are available on ONE single flash drive for your use you may purchase for only $149!

These will enable you to review and retain your favorite lectures, workshops and exhibits from the conference.  Or, you may see events you weren’t able to attend for the first time.  In any case, see all the wonderful choices available now!

Click here to open the Conference Resource Media Order Form.  Print it out and select your choices.

JGSLA members, Madeleine and Jerry Isenberg, have recently donated a total of 94 books to our library collection which they “rescued” from the now closed Jewish Community Library.  Many of them will be available to our members for the first time at the conference.  Some of them may be helpful for your research.

• Canadian Jewry Today:  Who’s Who in Canadian Jewry
  Edmond Y Lipsitz, ed.  1989
• A Time To Remember:  Growing up in New York Before the Great War
  Marie Jastrow  1979
• Jewish Notables in America 1776 – 1865
  Harry Simonhoff  1956
• The Provincials:  A Personal History of Jews in the South
  Eli N. Evans  1973
• The Jewish Legion of Valor:  The Story of Americans of Jewish faith who distinguished themselves in the armed forces in all the Wars of the Republic, and a General History of the Military Exploits of the Jews through the Ages
  Captain Sydney G. Gumpertz  1946
• Jews of the Latin American Republics
  Judith Laikin Elkin  1980
• Two Worlds:  An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood
  David Daiches  1956
• The Goodly Heritage:  Memoir describing the life of the Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries
  Avraham Yaari, 1958
• Jews in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
  Jacob M. Landau  1969
• Who’s Who in American Jewry:  A Biographical Dictionary of Living Jews of the United States and Canada  Volume 3  1938 – 1939
• The German Jew in America:  An annotated bibliography including books, pamphlets and articles of special interest
  Rudolf Glanz  1969