Thursday, September 17, 2015

Upcoming Genealogy Garage Workshop

WHEN: Saturday, September 19, 2015 – 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Let’s Explore the LAPL Photo Archives

Los Angeles Public Library Senior Librarian Christina Rice will showcase the LAPL photo archives. This Genealogy Garage workshop is so popular that we now meet in one of the library’s meeting rooms. The collection contains photographs from obsolete newspapers, such as the Herald-Examiner, the Valley Daily News, etc., as well as donations from private collections. Learn about the collection’s history and how patrons can search the archives and obtain copies of photographs for personal use. Genealogy Garage Coordinator Charlotte Bocage will give you a personal tour of the History & Genealogy Department’s vast holdings.

Genealogy Garage workshops are offered on the third Saturday of each month, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, except the month of December. Here is an opportunity to “tune-up” your current research skills or learn something new.

Where: Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) Richard Riordan Central Library

630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071

History & Genealogy Department, Lower Level 4

Parking: 524 Flower Street, south of 5th Street, $1 on Saturdays with library card

Directions to the Central Library and parking information is available at http://www.lapl.org/central/

RSVP Central Library 213-228-7000, ask for the History and Genealogy Department Tell them you are making a reservation for the Genealogy Garage workshop on [give the specific date]. Give them your name and an e-mail address or phone number so you can be notified if the workshop is unexpectedly cancelled.

Park UNDER the library, entering at 524 Flower Street just off 5^th Street. You need a LAPL card to receive the $1.00 Saturday parking rate. Apply for the card at your local LAPL or at the Circulation Desk when you arrive. Just bring identification. Show your library card to get your parking ticket validated at the Information Desk before returning to your car.

Please travel light. This is a public building—it is NOT recommended that you leave computers, purses or other personal items unattended while researching.

Contact: Charlotte Bocage/SCGS Education Chair: 323-669-1982 or rubymoon01@yahoo.com

Donie Nelson: 310-204-6808 or doniegsha@earthlink.net

A Message from the GSHA-SC Board

Dear GSHA-SC members and the general public: Our chapter and society as a whole has been struck with a crisis that every person in the world has had to experience. We hope you and your families will be given the strength to weather this unwelcome tide of events. Since our meeting space at the Southern California Genealogical Society in Burbank will be impacted by the amount of attendees that can be present. With this in mind, we will have a hybrid meeting with Zoom and in person attendance. .

However, we are planning to have virtual meetings using GoToMeeting or Zoom. When we schedule meetings, they will be promoted with Facebook, email blasts and in some cases, mailed notifications.

We hope you will have patience with us as we work through this transition. You matter to us. Thank you.

GSHA-SC is a 501(C)(3) non-profit California corporation #33-05894533, a non-profit group maintained purely by volunteers, as such we donate some our funds to benefit the awareness of preserving history, teaching our members and non-members how to do genealogy and promoting genealogy where and when we can. In the past, we had helped organization, such as Hispanic Heritage Project in scanning old documents to preserve history and we helped underwrite Genealogy Garage at the local Los Angeles Public Library, where they promote all types of research in areas of genealogy. There have been others throughout the many years this organization has been in existence. Past records of donations can be reviewed, if requested.

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Welcome

The Genealogical Society of Hispanic America – Southern California (GSHA-SC) was founded in 1992 to promote Hispanic genealogical and historical research with a focus on the American Southwest and Mexico.

Our goal is to expand awareness and knowledge of individual Hispanic culture, history, and traditions.

We encourage the sharing of information through:

• general meetings

• workshops

• research days

• Chapter newsletter

• GSHA journal

You are invited to join our members who are searching for their Hispanic roots. We are affiliated with GSHA, a national entity, based in Pueblo, Colorado. There are separate Pueblo and Utah GSHA Chapter.

Whether you have just began to explore your family lines or you are an experienced researcher, please join us. We have members who are eager to help you begin your ancestral search and as a group we benefit from the knowledge that veteran researchers have to offer.

We are proud to represent a membership that is both willing and able to assist you in discovering a rich and colorful Hispanic Heritage . . . a heritage in which you can be justly proud.

*GSHA-SC is a 501(C)(3) non-profit California corporation #33-05894533, a non-profit group maintained purely by volunteers.

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