Los Angeles, California 90025
MAP
Telephone 310-474-9990
or 310-474-2202
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10741 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90025 MAP Telephone 310-474-9990 or 310-474-2202 |
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This web site is not associated with anyOnly a small list of databases is now available at Ancestry.com at all Family History Centers. Disregard any references to Ancestry.com on the pages in this Website because they might be incorrect. We hope the OLD Ancestry.com services will be restored in the very near future.
The Latest News about the Los Angeles
Regional Family History Center or LARFHC
The new Internet address for the LARFHC website is http://www.larfhc.org/
The Los Angeles Family History Center is now called
the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center or LARFHC.
I am the new Webmaster for the official LARFHC website at http://www.larfhc.org/
See the many new databases and many changes.
LARFHC consultant Janet Johnson is available for help with TempleReady on Tuesday,
Wednesday & Thursday from 10 AM to 6 PM and Friday & Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM.
New LARFHC Consultant!
Wendy Mingchu Wei will translate Chinese every Friday, 1 - 4:30 PM.
PAF 2.31, 3 and 4 users may wish to upgrade to PAF 4 and/or 5.
PAF 2.31 users should upgrade to PAF 4 and then PAF 5.
See www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf for more details.
You may also download these free PAF 4 and 5 programs
from the Salt Lake Website.
User's Guides for PAF 4 and 5 are in red 3 ring notebooks
to the left of the Classroom.
Upcoming Events
8 June - Fri.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Jamboree Friday 12:30-7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Many nationally-know speakers, wide range of topics. Exhibit Hall with many vendors. Registration: $60 SCGS members, $75 non-members. One-day registration: $30/$35. Burbank Airport Hilton and Convention Center, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank Register online at http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/
SEE THE OFFICIAL LARFHC WEB SITE AT http://www.larfhc.org/
Because I am also the Webmaster for the official LARFHC Website, I will be adding to and maintaining only the official Website pages and will in time place most of my pages below on the official site.
The Latest News about Research on the Internet Latin American Microfilms at the LARFHC
101 Best (Genealogy) Web Sites on Family Tree Magazine's Web Site at
http://familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2005/ for 2005 and
http://familytreemagazine.com/101sites/2004/ for 2004
Civil War Photographs Online Catalog is explained at http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/07/american_civil_.html#more
WWII Army Enlistments Online Searchable Database of 9+ million names is explained HERE and linked to HERE.
The great Sanborn Maps for only California cities may be accessed from the Los Angeles City Public Library's website at: http://search2.webfeat.org/la.html You need a Los Angeles City Public Library card number to access the maps. Enter your card number, Submit, Click on S-T databases and find and click on the Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 link. Then click Browse Maps, Select State, Select City and Select Date. Search the sheets for the street and address. Suggest you use city directories to find the address. For the best printed copy I suggest you do not choose "Print Current View" but choose "Download Map" and print the Acrobat Reader PDF image or right mouse click on the image and "Save Picture As" to a file and print. If you need the free Acrobat Reader to read PDF files you can download it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
VA Offers On-Line Nationwide Gravesite Locator
"More than 3 million records showing where veterans have been buried in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries are now available online. The innovation will make it easy for anyone with Internet access to search for the gravesite locations of deceased family members and friends." You can access this resource by using the link "The National Grave Locator" on the left at http://www.cem.va.gov/
The wonderful Heritage Quest website with it's U.S. Census resources may NOW be accessed from the Los Angeles City Public Library's website at: http://search2.webfeat.org/la.html You need a Los Angeles City Public Library card number to access the Heritage Quest website. Enter your card number, Submit, Click on "H" database and find Heritage Quest and finally click on Heritage Quest link.
The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) website with GLO Records is at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
The Sites with the Latest Genealogy News http://eogn.typepad.com/
http://www.topix.net/hobbies/genealogy/
http://genealogy.about.com/