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Zoom meeting with the 2019 Volunteer of the Year award winner Chuck Weinstein: What's New in Ukraine Research
October 18, 2020
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Speaker: Chuck Weinstein
JGSLA invites you to our October stay at home Zoom on-line meeting with the very knowledgeable speaker Chuck Weinstein: What's New in Ukraine Research! October 18th, 2020 Sunday Afternoon, meeting will start at 1:30 pm the ZOOM link will be posted here about a week before the meeting members, please send the link to others that would like to attend This presentation will bring you up to date on new records coming from Ukraine and new opportunities for family historians to access information that has previously been unavailable in the United States. Chuck Weinstein was born in Los Angeles [...]
Zoom meeting with Christine Cohen: COUSIN BAITING and COUSIN STALKING !
November 22, 2020
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Speaker: Christine Cohen
JGSLA invites you to our next stay at home Zoom on-line meeting with Christine Cohen: COUSIN BAITING and COUSIN STALKING ! November 22nd, 2020 Sunday Afternoon, meeting will start at 1:30 pm the ZOOM link will be posted here about a week before the meeting members, please send the link to others that would like to attend Christine Cohen: Cousin Baiting and Cousin Stalking: How do you locate distant living cousins and reach out to them? How can you expand your pedigree chart forward in time? These and other questions relating to cousins will be addressed in this interesting [...]
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles (JGSLA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing genealogical information, techniques and research tools with those who are interested in Jewish genealogy and family history.
Founded in 1979, the Society has over 500 members and is governed by an elected Board of Directors. We hold monthly meetings providing a mix of lectures and films to assist our members in their family history research and twice-yearly research workshops with volunteer helpers and translators.
Support JGSLA with the purchase of
Jews in the Great War: Family Histories Retold
by Rosen, Lois Ogilby, ed.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, 2015. 208 pp. 
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A Review by Marion Werle: Jews in the Great War is a collection of 37 stories of the World War I experiences of Jews from all over the world. The stories and accompanying photos were initially exhibited at the 34th IAJGS Jewish genealogy conference, held in Salt Lake City in 2014. The book is partly a scrapbook and partly an exhibit catalog. The level of detail varies from story to story, the longest of which is 11 pages of narrative, photos and documents, with the typical entry consisting of a page or two of text accompanied by one or more photos and small family trees. Read More