Prior Meetings - Since 1998

• 1:00 p.m.
• IAJGS 2008 Conference and Film Festival Highlights

Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue
15739 Ventura Blvd.,
Encino  

• 1:00 p.m.
• Lecture by Dr. Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America
• Regional Special Interest Group Get-Together

• 7:30 p.m.
• Ron Arons on “The Jews of Sing Sing” – Lecture & Book Signing

Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel

10500 Wilshire Blvd.
West Los Angeles

• 7:30 p.m.
• Dr. Jeffrey Malka on “Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.”

• 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Half Day Seminar – $20 for members, $25 for guests
• Speakers: Ron Arons, Beau Sharbrough (Footnote.com), and Suzanne Russo Adams (Ancestry.com)
• “It’s All Online! Internet Sleuthing for the Family Historian or Genealogist”
• Online registration begins January 14 at www.skirball.org
• Free screening at 5:00PM of “Past Lives: The Stanley Diamond Story”.

• 12 noon to 6 p.m.
• Assisted Research Day for Members
• Members only; join or renew at the door

• 7:30 p.m.
• Speaker: Marian Smith, Federal Historian
• Documenting Immigrants to America: 1882-1954
• Copy of meeting handout

• 7:30 p.m.
• Speaker: Karen S. Franklin
• “State of the Art: Restitution and Resolution”
• Copy of meeting handout

• 1:00 p.m.
• Speaker: Michael Goldstein
• A Wealth of World Jewish Records: Researching in Israel
• Copy of meeting handout

• 1 to 6 p.m.
• Assisted Research Day for Members
• (New members welcome)

• 7:30 p.m.
• Speaker: Pamela Weisberger
• "When Leopold Met Lena: Marriage, Divorce and Deception in 1892 New York"

• 12 - 3:45 p.m.
• Highlights of the 2007 International Jewish Genealogical Conference
• Film Screenings: “Schmatte Mazel”; “Buboolah Bagela” and “ West Bank Story”

• 7:30 p.m.
• Author Stuart Tower
• Discussion of his book: “The Wayfarers”
  and Jewish life in Romania today

• 7:30 p.m.
• Professor Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University
• “Past Perfect: The Jewish Experience in Early 20 th Century Postcards”

• 7:30 p.m.
• Nancy Biederman, David Hoffman, Sonia Hoffman
• “Recreating an Eastern European Shtetl”

• 1 to 4 p.m.
• “Where Once We Walked: Traveling to Ancestral Shtetls”
• Mark Heckman, Andrea Massion, Karen Roekard, and Lois Rosen

• 1 to 5 p.m.
• Assisted Research Day for Members
• (New members welcome)

• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• New Year’s Brunch and A Day with Yale Strom, Filmmaker and Klezmer Musician
• Films to be screened: “The Last Klezmer” and “Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years”

• 7:30 p.m.
• "Daniel Mendelsohn, author"
• " The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million"

• 11:30 a.m.
• "Assisted Research in the LDS Family History Center"
• Members Only - you may join at the door

• "Highlights of the New York IAJGS Conference" and
• "Common Interest Group Meetings"

• The Whole Michpocha: Planning Family Reunions & Writing Family Newsletters
• Speakers: Joan Glanz Rimmon & Lori Miller

• Breaking Through Brick Genealogical Walls
• Speaker: Hal Bookbinder
• Co-sponsored with the Jewish Community Library of L.A.

• 7:00 p.m.
• Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors in Census and Passenger Records
• Speaker: Stephen Morse
• Co-sponsored with the Skirball Cultural Center

• 7:00 p.m.
• Pre-Meeting Program: Genealogical Research in the United Kingdom, Lorna Kay, JGS Great Britain
• Click here to see a copy of Ms. Kay's handout
• 7:30 p.m. Finding Your Family in 18th Century Eastern European Records
• Speakers: David Hoffman and Sonia Hoffman

• 7:00 p.m. Pre-Meeting Program
• Yizkor Books – Bridges to the Past
• Speaker: Joyce Field
• 7:30 p.m. Program
• Genealogical Research at the American Jewish Historical Archives in Cincinnati
• Speaker: Nancy Brandt, Archivist at the American Jewish Archives

• 1:30 p.m.
• Panel Discussion: New York City Research, Visitor’s Center, Theater 6
• 3:00 p.m.
• Assisted Research, Family History Center Library and Classroom
• Members only – new members may join at the door

• 2 p.m.
• Organizational meeting for the JGSLA Cemetery Project

• 7:30 PM
• Special Showing of "My Grandfather’s House: The Journey Home”
• Jointly sponsored with Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles

• 1:00 PM
• Pre-Meeting Talk: "Features to Look for When Choosing Genealogical Software"
• Meeting Lecture: “How to Make Your Own Family History Video Using Your Personal Computer” 
  Mark Heckman
• Presentation slideshows links:
  http://www.geocities.com/mrheckman/GenSoftware.htm
  http://www.geocities.com/mrheckman/Video.htm

• 7:30 PM
• “Divan” – Documentary film and Q & A with filmmaker Pearl Gluck
• No charge; Reservations required - Space is Limited

• 1:00 p.m.
• A NARA (National Archives) Mini-Workshop
  Randy Thompson, Archivist, NARA Laguna Niguel

• Galleries: 1:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.,
• Lecture: 7:15 p.m.
• From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America" - Lecture and Exhibit

• Pre-meeting talk: Travel to Ukraine (handout)
  Speaker: Sol Sylvan
• 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Assisted Research Afternoon
• Open only to current members.  Non-members may join at the door

• 7:00 p.m.
• "My Grandfather’s House: The Journey Home” – Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker Eileen Douglas and co-producer/director Ron Steinman, and Douglas’ daughter Rachel Zients.

• 1:00 p.m.
• “I Remember Jewish Drohobycz” and Report on the 25^th IAJGS Conference in Las Vegas

• 25th International IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy

• 7:00 p.m.
• “Rescued from the Reich”—Conspiracy and Morality Collide in World War II
• Bryan Mark Rigg, Ph.D.
• Jointly sponsored with Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles

• Program:  7:30 p.m.
• Genealogy by Genetics
• Speaker:  Bennett Greenspan
• Pre-program:  7:00 p.m.
• The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Yad Vashem Research and Resources
  Tutorial on Use of Yad Vashem Database
• Speaker: Ann Harris

• 7:00 p.m.
• Overcoming Dead Ends and Organizing Materials in Genealogical  Research - Nancy Carlberg

• 7:30 p.m.
• The Role of the Family Historian: How Social History Can Complement Genealogical Research - Joan Adler, Executive Director, Straus Historical Society

• 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
• Assisted Research Afternoon
• Open only to current JGSLA members.
  Non-members may join at the door

• 1:30 p.m.
• Polish-Jewish Genealogical Research - Warren Blatt, editor-in-chief, JewishGen

• The Jews of Sing-Sing: Might One of Them Belong on Your Family Tree?- Ron Arons
• Extra! Extra! Read All About It--Historical Newspaper Research- Pamela Weisberger

• 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Assisted Research Afternoon for JGSLA members only

• JGSLA 25th Anniversary event
• "Jewish Genealogy - Looking Back, Looking Forward"
• Miriam Weiner

• "Secret Jews: the History and Culture of CryptoJews (Conversos) and their Search for Jewish Roots and Identity."
• Arthur Benveniste
  
• Jointly sponsored with the Skirball Cultural Center.
  

• "Highlights from the Jerusalem Genealogy Conference and Israel Research Resources"

• 24th IAJGS Annual Conference, Jerusalem, Israel

• "The Genealogist's Crowning Achievement Recording His Legacy,"
• Werner L. Frank, JGSLA member.
• Jointly sponsored with Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles.

• "Raising Atlantis: The Recovery of Jewish Memory in Poland," Yale Reisner, Director, Lauder Foundation Genealogy Project (Eastern Europe).
  $5.00 per person admission.
• JGSLA 25th Anniversary Special Program

• Pre-meeting "Sister Act Adventures in Genealogy," Joan Adler and Bobby Furst.
• "Using Maps Successfully in Genealogical Research" Robert Sherins, JGSLA member

• "A Potpourri of One Step
  Genealogical Search Tools"- Steve Morse
• Jointly sponsored with the Museum of Tolerance.
• Library Research and Museum tours available
  before and after the meeting.

• 3:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Assisted Research
• 3:30 p.m. Introduction to the FHC by Barbara Algaze
  Open only to current JGSLA members.
  Non-members may join at the door.

• Jewish Film Festival.
  The films include "Wooden Synagogues", Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Yiddishe Gauchos, the 10th Anniversary of the Gesher Galicia, and more.

• "Researching and Resources in
  New York City" - Panel New York City" - Panel
  "Cemetery Internet Resources" Barbara Algaze
  "NY Resources" Ron Arons"
  "Genealogical Trip " Sonia Nayle

• 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Assisted Research Afternoon for JGSLA members only
• 1:30 p.m. Introduction to the FHC-Barbara Algaze

• "How to Order Birth, Death
  and Marriage Records from the
  Family History Library in Salt Lake
  City" (tutorial) - Gerry Winerman"
• "A NARA Genealogical Town
  Hall" - Bill Doty, Archivist, NARA

• "Photographic Restoration
  Techniques for Genealogists"
  - Claire F. Santos-Daigle

• "City Directory Research" (tutorial)
  - Pamela Weisberger
• "Highlights of the IAJGS Washington
  D.C. Conference"
  Click on one of the lines below to view
  presentation handouts
  1. City Directories
  2. Ordering WW II German Photographs
  3. Sephardic Research

• See you at the 23rd IAJGS International
  Conference on Jewish Genealogy,
  Washington, D.C.

• "American Red Cross Holocaust
  Tracing Services"- Bob Rich (pre-mtg)
• "Magnate Landowner records of Eastern
  Europe" - Gayle Schissel Riley

• "Why a Historian Turns to Fiction"
  - Harriet Rochlin
• The Peter Hahn Jewish Community
  Libray will open at
  6:00pm on May 19th to accommodate
  participants.

• "Jewish Given Names"
• "An introduction to JewishGen Data
  Bases"
  Both talks by Warren Blatt,
  JewishGen editor-in-chief
  Click on one of the lines below to
  view presentation handouts
  1. Jewish Given Names
  2. JewishGen Data Bases

• "Why Do Holocaust Research?" - Peter Lande
  
  1. Opportunities & Obstacles
  2. Addresses
  3. Int'l Red Cross & Germany

• Assisted Research Afternoon/Evening
  Open only to current JGSLA members.
  Non-members may join at the door.

• "A Portrait of Iranian Jews: From Esther to Today"
  - Debbie Adhami

• "Using the Internet to Find Anyone and Anything"
  - Ron Arons
  

• "Visits to Our Ancestral Shtetls" - panel

• Assisted Research Afternoon

• Arthur Kurzweil, author of
  "From Generation to Generation"
  (co-sponsored by the Skirball Cultural Center)

• Holocaust Research,
  Katherine Mader, author; and Adaire Klein,
  Library Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center

• Lecture and tour of the exhibit,
  "Jewish Life in The American West:
  Generation to Generation"

• Jewish Records Indexing (JRI-
  Poland): 1,500,000 record indices and more,
  Mark Halpern, JRI-Poland Board Member

• Birds of a Feather Roundtable Discussions

• "Putting the Flesh on the Bones:
  Expanding the Concept of Genealogy",
  Ron Arons

• "The US Government Public Release
  of the 1930 US Census", Randy Thompson, 
  NARA Pacific SW Region, Laguna Niguel
  

• Assisted Research Evening
  

• "German Genealogy - Beyond Names
  and Dates", Emily Rose
• German Genealogy Roundtable - ask
  a panel of experts

• Four Centuries of Jewish Immigration
  to the Americas, Hal Bookbinder

• Eastern European Records at
  the FHL, Thomas K. Edlund, Assoc. Prof.,
  Brigham Young Univ. (formerly, Sr. Librarian
  of Slavic Bibliography at the FHL)

• Beginners Workshop
  (co-sponsored by the Skirball)
  - advanced registration and fee is required
  

• An exclusive afternoon of
  assisted research at the LDS Family History
  Center in Los Angeles

• Searching the Ellis Island Database,
  (EIDB) with fewer tears, Stephen P. Morse, Ph.D.
• The Best of the London Conference,
  members discuss conference highlights

• Genetic Research, Dr. Michael Hammer

• Yiskor Books Tutorial, Jan Meisels Allen
• Tracing Your Ancestors in the 18th Century
  Census of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,
  David Hoffman, Ph.D. and Sonia Hoffman

• What's New In Immigration and
  Naturalization Research, Marian Smith
  (INS Historian)
• Click here for link to Speaker's materials

• "There Once Was a Town"
  (award winning film)

• 3:00pm-9:00pm: Assisted Research Evening (open only to current members)

• Installation of JGSLA Board of Directors
• "Archival Research", Marc Weinman

• Tutorial: Things to do when you are stuck in your research, Hal Bookbinder
• Elections for JGSLA Board of Directors
• "Jewish Roots in Los Angeles: The Impact of Jews on the City, from Pioneer Life to Suburbia, from the Movies to Politics", Jerry Freedman Habush

• Nominations for JGSLA Board of Directors
• "Five Generations in Shanghai", Ester Shifrin

• "Jewish Migrations: How did the Jews get from Jerusalem to Poland, Yemen and Morocco?", Steve Lowentstein, Professor at University of Judaism

• Birds of a Feather Roundtable Discussion Groups (Austria-Hungary, Belarus, England, Galicia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine)

• Online Hamburg Passenger Lists Tutorial
• Fiction from Family History - Anna Olswanger

• Immigration and Naturalization Workshop - Dr. Paul Wormser

• Preparing for your research trip to SLC - Hal Bookbinder
• Using Period Costume to Date Photographs - Melissa Leventon

• The American Jewish Participation in the U.S. Civil War - Harold Bernstein

• Tour (Special Event)

• The Secret Jews, Spanish Jews Who Came to America - Arthur Beneviste

• Assisted Research Night

• JGSLA 2000 Board Installation
• Jewishgen-eology Y2K - Carol Skydell

• JGSLA 2000 Board Elections
• Ask the Experts - Panel to answer your research questions
• Funny Stories & Creative Research - Liz Bernstein, master of ceremonies

• JGSLA 2000 Board Nominations
• Finding Your Family in the U.S. Census-1850 to 1920 - Geri Winerman
• The JGS, Inc. (NY) Cemetery Project - Ada Greenblatt

• Creative Ways to Locate People - Tim Koster, CEO of Search Systems (a private investigative firm)

• Members Sharing Their Discoveries at the New York Seminar

• Russian-Jewish 19th Century Newspapers - Rabbi Jeffrey Marx
• Developing a Mid-19th Century 'Census' of Jews in Lithuania - David Hoffman

• Variations on a Family Book - Sandy Zimmerman, Carolyn Rosenstein, Linda Caciola

• Choosing a Family History Software Program - Stephanie Nordlinger and Steve Abrams

• JGSLA 20th Anniversary Event
• Sources of Genealogical Research in the Ukraine - Efim Melamed, Professional Genealogist from Zhitomir, Ukraine

• Ask the Experts Workshop/Special Interest Discussion Groups

• Assisted Research Night

• JGSLA 1999 Board Installation
• The Khazars, our ancestors? - Hal Bookbinder

• JGSLA 1999 Board Elections
• Cemetery Research - Marge Dallis
• No, all of the records were not destroyed - Bob Weiss

• JGSLA 1999 Board Nominations
• Where was Eden and who were Adam and Eve? - Dr. Steven Baird

• Organizing Your Research - Debbi Korman
• The Mexican Jewish Experience - Liora Pier

• Nobody's Business - a film by Alan Berliner

• Members sharing discoveries - Liz Bernstein

• Preview of the 18th Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy - Hal Bookbinder, Ted Gostin, Steve Abrams 

• Genealogical Surfing of the Web - Herb Van Brink
• Three mini-topics - Passenger lists, Obituary Research, Jewish Migrations - Bennett Cohon

• Family Newsletters - Richard Hoffman

• City Directories - Dee Skholnik
• Russian Genealogical Resources in American Repositories - Ted Gostin

• Assisted research night. Open only to current JGSLA members

• JGSLA 1998 Board Installation
• LDS FHL Research - Les Amer
• Changing Borders of Europe - Hal Bookbinder