A hybrid presentation by zoom and at the Los Angeles FamilySearch Library, 1591 East Temple Way, Westwood, California, Training Room 2
How Do I Access the Meeting Online? There is no pre-registration, but you can go to the following link to join the class at the time of the meeting:
All are welcome. No charge.
Hybrid Meeting=In person at Los Angeles FamilySearch Library, 1591 East Temple Way, Westwood, California, Training Room 2 or Zoom Session. This is a lecture to help people learn about doing genealogical research for their Indian roots in Mexico. John Schmal will show examples of Indian baptisms and marriages from various parts of the country. He will also discuss the issue of tribal identity and the use of the generic term “indio” in Catholic Church records as early as the 1600s. Some of the challenges of tracing indigenous families beyond several generations will be discussed.
How Do I Access the Meeting Online? There is no pre-registration, but you can go to the following link to join the class at the time of the meeting:
https://churchofjesuschrist.zoom.us/j/99164748407?pwd=TllYL0ZSN2puSlBSaWtyS0pwSDJxdz09
In the past, our organization has helped with the promotion of webinars that the SCGS' Genealogy Group puts on for the general public. Even though we are a Hispanic genealogy group, we promote the education and knowledge that one may obtain from these presentations. Who knows if your ancestors may have some connection to these areas. Since they are free online via their GoToMeeting, we are letting our members know that these courses are available to you if you sign in and register in advance by hitting here.
Webinars offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to 500 attendees per session, at no charge. While the original webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the SCGS members-only section of this website. Archived sessions will be available approximately three days following the webinar. To view the webinar, you will need a computer with audio speakers or a headset. Those persons with a fast Internet connection (either broadband or DSL) will have the most satisfactory experience.
In the past, our organization has helped with the promotion of webinars that the Los Angeles Public Library's Genealogy Garage puts on for the general public. Even though we are a Hispanic genealogy group, we promote the education and knowledge that one may obtain from these presentations. Who knows if your ancestors may have some connection to these areas. Since the courses are free in person and possibly online via YouTube or Facebook, we are letting our members know that these courses are available to you if you sign in to YouTube or Facebook. For more information, please communicate with the Library directly.
The story first ran in the LA Times and was written by Deborah Vankin on June 28, 2023. To read the story in full, hit here
Steven Hackel thought it was a prank at first when the call came, early in the morning: “What do you mean the church is on fire?” He raced from his Pasadena home to the 249-year-old Mission San Gabriel, which was ensconced in flames devouring the historic structure.
Hackel was not a member of the still-active parish in San Gabriel, but as a UC Riverside history professor specializing in California’s missions, he was intimately familiar with the small, on-site Mission San Gabriel Museum, which he’d been helping to steer, in various unpaid capacities, for almost a decade.
As 80 firefighters from seven cities battled the four-alarm fire, Hackel and about half a dozen others set out to rescue the museum’s collection, which the fire hadn’t yet reached. They carried out about 100 objects — Native baskets, 17th and 18th century paintings, rare books and photographs — from the museum building, which was intact but for smoke and water damage. They stored the items at a convent next door before later relocating them to proper art storage.
That terrifying experience was compounded by the timing: The fire, later determined to be arson-caused, happened on July 11, 2020.
But they felt compelled, nonetheless, to push forward and try to save the collection.
The Mission San Gabriel Museum — a new version of which opens to the public on July 1, along with the mission itself and its renovated church — may be small and little-known. But it’s critically important, Hackel says. L.A.’s Southwest Museum of the American Indian, which was inaugurated in 1907, may be slightly older; the Autry Museum of the American West may be larger, with collections totaling more than 600,000 objects and cultural materials. But the Mission San Gabriel Museum offers curated historical objects within a relevant setting, providing unique context. The mission was established in 1771, the fourth of California’s 21 Spanish missions, and the on-site museum has been in continuous operation since 1908. (Originally located in Whittier Narrows, the Mission San Gabriel was moved to its current location in 1774.)
“This is a place of memory,” Hackel says. “This is where the missionaries lived, and where Native people from distant regions — more than 7,000 of them — came and had their struggles. It’s where the human drama played out — here, on this site. And the museum helps us understand this complicated Native American and Catholic story.”
The Mission San Gabriel Museum has been shuttered for three years. But the fire proved an opportunity: With the galleries emptied out, Hackel says, the museum could rebuild from the ground up — both physically and conceptually. The museum reimagined itself in order to present a more historically accurate and inclusive picture of the Catholic mission and the Indigenous communities it colonized. This inevitably involved a reckoning with the past. Although the mission was built by Indigenous people, with about 5,600 Native Americans buried there, the Native experience had not previously been represented in the museum.
Its inaugural exhibition — “Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 1771-1900: Natives, Missionaries, and the Birth of Catholicism in Los Angeles” — is an attempt to publicly recognize “a 250-year-long erasure of the mission’s Native history and to displace a Eurocentric understanding of the legacies of Spanish colonization and Catholic missionization,” the museum said in its opening announcement.
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Deborah Vankin is an arts and culture writer for the Los Angeles Times. In what’s never a desk job, she has live-blogged her journey across Los Angeles with the L.A. County Museum of Art’s “big rock,” scaled downtown mural scaffolding with street artist Shepard Fairey, navigated the 101 freeway tracking the 1984 Olympic mural restorations and ridden Doug Aitken’s art train through the Barstow desert. Her award-winning interviews and profiles unearth the trends, issues and personalities in L.A.’s arts scene. Her work as a writer and editor has also appeared in Variety, LA Weekly and the New York Times, among other places. Originally from Philadelphia, she’s the author of the graphic novel “Poseurs.”
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In 1492, Castile and Aragon (Spain) gave an ultimatum to the Jews: convert to Catholicism or leave. This presentation tells the story of three families that stayed but continued facing persecution and their voyage to the new world.
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In the past, our organization has helped with the promotion of webinars that the SCGS' Genealogy Group puts on for the general public. Even though we are a Hispanic genealogy group, we promote the education and knowledge that one may obtain from these presentations. Who knows if your ancestors may have some connection to these areas. Since they are free online via their GoToMeeting, we are letting our members know that these courses are available to you if you sign in and register in advance by hitting here.
Webinars offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to 500 attendees per session, at no charge. While the original webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the SCGS members-only section of this website. Archived sessions will be available approximately three days following the webinar. To view the webinar, you will need a computer with audio speakers or a headset. Those persons with a fast Internet connection (either broadband or DSL) will have the most satisfactory experience.
