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“Five New Things to Try at Ancestry”  with Crista Cowan
Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM
University Synagogue
11960 Sunset Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90049

From helpful tools to must-search record collections, Ancestry’s Crista Cowan will demo the top five recent latest additions to Ancestry.com. She will tell you where to find them, how to use them, and how to “tweak” your results to be successful, plus answer your questions about how to get the most from each.

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“A Genealogical Journey to Heritage Citizenship: Reclaiming Historical Rights”
Monday, June 17 at 7:30 PM
Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue
15739 Ventura Blvd
Encino, CA 91436
UPDATE: This talk was recorded! Watch the video here:

Citizenship and legal status affected every aspect of Jewish life in the “Old Country”. Follow a 100 year circular story of how Lithuanian national laws were misapplied causing multiple Jewish deaths in 1922 and how the same government repeated the identical behavior towards the same family four generations later.

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Chutes & Ladders: Innovative Approaches to Genealogy
Monday, May 13 at 7:30 PM
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

If you treat genealogical research like a game to be mastered or a puzzle to be solved, it makes the adventure of finding your family that much more enjoyable and rewarding. This lecture covers unusual databases and imaginative strategies that can lead to research breakthroughs.Highlights will be overlooked resources,

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Researching U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Monday, April 29 at 7:30 PM
Toyota USA Auto Museum
19600 Van Ness Ave.
Torrance, CA 90501

One of the first things that the newly created United States of America did was to establish laws covering naturalization. These laws, however, were administered by the states with many variations. Finally, in 1906 the Federal Government took control of the entire process. The standardized documentation after 1906 has proven invaluable to genealogical researchers.

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JGSLA members, is your research stuck in a rut? Brick walls to scale?
Searching for that elusive missing link on your family tree?
The JGSLA can help!  Join us for the JGSLA spring members-only

ASSISTED RESEARCH AFTERNOON
AT THE LOS ANGELES FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY
Sunday, April 7, 2013
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM

L.A. Family History Library
10741 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles,

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – 8:00 PM
Skirball Cultural Center – Magnin Auditorium
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
On the Chocolate Trail:
A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, History, Travel,
Religion and Rituals to the Magic of Cacao
Explore the surprising Jewish connections to chocolate

During this gastronomic talk for chocolate-lovers of all backgrounds, writer and educator Rabbi Deborah Prinz will share stories of Jews in the early chocolate trade and examine into how Jews,

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Monday, February 11, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Genealogical Adventures in Shtetland

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles 90049

To Heller and Back: From home office to Grandpa’s home in five crazy weeks

Lauren Farasati had never dabbled in genealogy until last August when she cleaned a closet and found a treasure. That treasure sparked her curiosity and launched her into a whirlwind of research,

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Monday, January 7, 2013 – 7:30PM
American Jewish Rescuers: The Lehman Family

Wilshire Boulevard Temple – Irmas Campus
11661 W. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles 90064

The Mayer Lehman Charity Fund facilitated the rescue and support of almost 200 European Jews prior to the Holocaust, many of them Lehman family members. Established by the Lehman family, The Mayer Lehman Charity Fund was named for one of the three German immigrant brothers,

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Sunday, August 26, 2012 ~ 1:30PM – 4:15PM

University Synagogue – Klein Hall
11960 Sunset Blvd. W. Los Angeles 90049

• Paris IAJGS Conference Highlights
• “It Takes a Shtetl: Bringing Your Ancestral Towns to Life” with Joel Waters
• Regional Special Interest Group Roundtables
• (and the JGSLA Traveling Library will be available starting at 1:00PM)

1:30 – 2:00PM – Paris IAJGS Conference Highlights
Brief summaries of the most outstanding IAJGS 2012 Conference programs and lectures.

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Monday, June 18, 2012 – 7:30PM

Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue
15739 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, CA 91436

Ellen Cassedy set off into the Jewish heartland of Lithuania to study Yiddish and connect with her Jewish forebears. But once there, old certainties began to dissolve, and what had begun as a personal journey of return soon expanded into a larger quest. The result was her new book,

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