The Jewish Genealogical Society of
the Conejo Valley and Ventura County
ResourcesVital Records California Department of Public Health California Department of Public Health http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/Pages/default.aspx Los Angeles County Los Angeles County Clerk-Recorder Certificate
Information (562) 462-2137
Ventura County Ventura County Recorder's Office (805) 654-2295
Libraries Agoura Hills County of Los Angeles (818) 889-2278 (JGSCV Library is maintained here) County of Los Angeles Public Library (COLA) has a subscription to Heritage Quest which includes the US census from 1790-1930 (the most recently released census to the public). This is accessible from both the library and remotely from your home computer. You must have an LA County Library Card to access this research site remotely. COLA has a subscription to ProQuest historical newspapers, however, many of the subscriptions are from late 1980's and 1990's to the current. The subscription includes the full text of nine national US newspapers from 1986 to current: Atlanta Constitution Journal, Barron's; Boston Globe; Christian Science Monitor; Denver Post; New York Times; USA Today; Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Enter the specific newspaper title in the "Publication Title" box of the "More Search Options" link on the search screen to locate articles specifically in a given newspaper, or click on the tab, "publications" to see the extensive list of newspapers, including the ProQuest Historical newspapers. COLA also has the ProQuest Historical LA Times since 1986. These newspapers can be accessed remotely with a LA County Library Card. (LA County Library website)
Calabasas Calabasas Library Has subscriptions to ProQuest Los Angeles Times from 1985-forward and Newsbank from 1977 back. You need a library card to access the database remotely. You do not have to be a resident of Calabasas to obtain a library card.
Thousand Oaks Brimhall Library (805) 449-2660 (Genealogy-Conejo Valley Genealogical Society maintains its library here) The Brimhall Thousand Oaks Library (TO Library) has a subscription to Ancestry.com library-edition. This subscription is only accessible for research at the library. The TO Library also has subscription to the ProQuest Historical LA Times and Heritage Quest for US Census 1790-1930 ( the most recently released census to the public). Both of these sources are available remotely with a Thousand Oaks Library Card. A Thousand Oaks Library card is obtainable for non-Thousand Oaks residents for $70 per year per single card.
Westlake Village
31220 Oak Crest Drive Woodland Hills Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) 630 West Fifth Street (between Grand and Flower, downtown) Los Angeles, California 90071-2097
History & Genealogy Department Tom Bradley Wing Lower Level 4
Telephone: Information, Main Number (213) 228-7000
ProQuest access to the Los Angeles Times Historical Database (1881-1985) is available on site or with a library card-holder password. The LAPL also has a subscription to ProQuest Newspapers which includes the more recent LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. The LAPL also has ProQuest Newstand available and includes hundreds of newspapers from the 1990's- to current date.
Ventura County Library System There are 15 libraries comprising the Ventura County Library System. They are all sharing the same computer system for databases and resources. You need a Ventura County Library Card to access the databases from your home computer. You do not need to live in one of the Ventura County communities to obtain a free library card. The Ventura County Library System has subscriptions only to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Los Angeles Times (1985-forward), They are accessible remotely by using your Ventura County Library card
The VCLS also has subscriptions to: The 15 branches of the County Library are:
Avenue Library in Ventura E.P. Foster Public Library (Ventura County Genealogical Society maintains its library here)
Museums Ventura County The Ventura County Museum of History and Art (houses the A. Levy Collection)
Cemeteries Mt. Sinai Parks - Simi Valley (800) 600-0076 (Look for link to Simi)
Beth Olam Cemetery (818) 889-0902 no website (Within Valley Oaks - Griffin Memorial Park and Mortuary formerly Pierce Brothers - Valley Oaks Westlake Village)
Ivy Lawn Memorial
Park (805) 642-1055 (They have a consecrated part of the cemetery known as Temple Beth Torah and another distinct part within Ivy Lawn Memorial Park for Jewish burials, in a non-consecrated area.)
Cemetery Park (Previously known as St. Mary's Cemetery then sold to the Presbyterian Church then deeded to an unnamed Jewish organization. In 1964 the city removed all gravestone markers, of the Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish and Chinese interred there. A movement is to restore the cemetery markers many of which are stored in city hall. A private website includes the names of the people buried there. This cemetery includes Jewish pioneers of Ventura County with a Jewish presence since 1886. No burials have been in the park since 1941. It became a park in 1964 when the City of Ventura decided to remove the headstones, very old with no upkeep and maintain the area as a memorial park. There are small metal markers flush with the ground that can be keyed to the larger memorial bearing the names of all those buried in the cemetery.)
Conejo Mountain Memorial
Park (805) 482-1959 http://conejomountainmemorialpark.com (Non-sectarian Park with Jewish Section known as Beth Shalom)
Family History Centers
Los Angeles County Los Angeles Regional Family History Center (310) 474-2202
Ventura County Camarillo California
Fillmore California
Newbury Park California
Ojai California
Oxnard California 2nd
Simi Valley California
Thousand
Oaks California
Ventura California
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