Recent JGSLA Meetings

April 1, 2012 – 12:30-6PM
Assisted Research Day at the Family History Library – the day before the 1940 Census is released to the public!
Speaker: Steve Morse, creator of the One-Step Tools
Location: Los Angeles Family History Library, Los Angeles

March 13, 2012 – 7:30PM
“The Pianist of Willesden Lane”
and
For the Sake of the Children: Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr.
Speaker: Joan Adler, Executive Director, Straus Family Historical Society.
Location: Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Irmas Campus, West Los Angeles

February 26, 2012
Searching for Rohatyn’s former Jewish Past: Material Culture & the Preservation of Memory
Speaker: Marla Raucher Osborn
Location: Los Angeles Family History Library

February 16, 2012
Jews in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Polish Republics: Discontinuity and Reinvention
Speaker: Konstanty Gebert
Location: Skirball Cultural Center

February 5, 2012
Putting Flesh on the Bones: New & Improved!
Speaker: Ron Arons
Location: Toyota USA Automobile Museum

Monday, January 9, 2012
The Trotskys, the Bronsteins and the Kievskys: A Search for Identity in Russian-Jewish History
Speaker: Boris Kievsky
Location: Skirball Cultural Center

Sunday, December 18, 2011 – 12:30PM – 4:00PM
What’s in a Name? Jewish Given Names and Jewish Surnames
Speaker: Warren Blatt
and
JGSLA Hannukah Party Celebration!
Location: University Synagogue – West Los Angeles

Monday, December 12, 2011 – 7:30PM
One-Step Webpages: A Hodgepodge of Genealogical Gems – Steve Morse
Location: Long Beach JCC – South Bay

Sunday, November 20, 2011
Researching Your Roots: A One-Day Family History Symposium
co-sponsored by the Skirball Cultural Center’s lifelong Learning Department
Location: Skirball Cultural Center

Sunday, October 16, 2011
Assisted Research Day at the L.A. Family History Library