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Vital Records:

    Los Angeles County

      Los Angeles County Clerk-Recorder
      Birth, Death and Marriage Records Section
      P.O. Box 53120
      Los Angeles, CA 90053-0120

      Certificate Information (562) 462-2137
      Marriage License Information (562) 462-2137

      http://www.lavote.net/RECORDER/BDM_Records.cfm

Libraries:

    Agoura Hills

      County of Los Angeles
      Agoura Hills Library (Holocaust Studies)
      29901 Ladyface Court
      Agoura Hills, CA 91301

      (818) 889-2278

      http://www.colapublib.org/libs/agourahills/

      (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.

      http://www.colapublib.org

      (LA County Library website)

    Calabasas

      Calabasas Library
      23975 Park Sorrento
      Calabasas, CA 91302
      (818) 225-7616

      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.

     

    The City of Camarillo Public Library

      The Camarillo Library left the Ventura County Library System effective January 1, 2011 and is independently run through the City of Camarillo.


    Thousand Oaks

      Brimhall Library
      1401 East Janss Road
      Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

      (805) 449-2660

      http://www.toaks.org/library

      (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 all California residents at no fee.

       

    Westlake Village

      A branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library.
      See under Agoura Hills Library for the details of what is available


    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


      The closest LAPL to the Conejo Valley and Ventura County is the Woodland Hills branch (818) 226-0017. There is no charge for a library card.

      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 14 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:

      • Ancestry.com Library Edition (which may only be used in the library) a database includes over 4 billion names and 500,000 family trees.  It provides extensive coverage of the U.S., including census data, birth, marriage, and death records, World War I draft registration cards, Social Security death records, and immigration lists.
      • Heritage Quest on-line ( which can be access remotely from your home). This collection includes: U.S. federal census data (1790-1930), over 20,000 family and local history books and over 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records.

      http://www.vencolibrary.org

      The 14 branches of the County Library are:

      Avenue Library in Ventura
      Fillmore Library
      E. P. Foster Library (Ventura)
      Historical Museum Library (Ventura)
      Meiners Oaks Library (Ojai)
      Museum of Ventura County Research Library (Ventura)
      Oak Park Library
      Oak View Library
      Ojai Library
      Piru Library
      Ray D. Preuter Library (Port Hueneme)
      Saticoy Library
      Simi Valley Library
      Albert H. Soliz Library (Saticoy)


Museums:

    Ventura County

      The Ventura County Museum of History and Art 
      100 East Main Street
      Ventura, CA  93001
      (805) 653-0323

      http://www.venturamuseum.org

      (houses the A. Levy Collection)


Cemeteries:

    Mt. Sinai Parks - Simi Valley
    6150 Mt. Sinai Drive
    Simi Valley, CA 93063

    (800) 600-0076

    http://www.mountsinaiparks.org

    (Look for link to Simi)

    Beth Olam Cemetery
    5600 Lindero Canyon Road
    Westlake Village, CA 91361

    (818) 889-0902

    no website

    (Within Valley Oaks - Griffin Memorial Park and Mortuary formerly Pierce Brothers - Valley Oaks Westlake Village)

    Ivy Lawn Memorial Park
    5400 Valentine Road
    Ventura, CA 93003

    (805) 642-1055

    http://www.ivylawn.org 

    (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
    Main Street
    Ventura, California

    http://www.restorestmarys.org

    (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
    2052 Howard Road
    Camarillo, CA 93012

    (805) 482-1959

    http://conejomountainmemorialpark.com

    (Non-sectarian Park with Jewish Section known as Beth Shalom)

Family History Centers:

    Los Angeles County

      Los Angeles Family History Library
      10741 Santa Monica Boulevard
      West Los Angeles, CA 90025

      (310) 474-9990

      http://www.lafhl.org/

      The Los Angeles Family History Library has reopened. Click here for new floor plan.
      Mon, Fri, Sat 9AM-5 PM Tu, Wed, Thur 9AM-9PM
      Closed Sundays

    Ventura County

      Camarillo California
      1201 Paseo Camarillo
      Camarillo, California
      (805) 388-7215

      Fillmore California
      1017 First Street
      Fillmore, California
      (805) 524-7712

      Newbury Park California
      35 South Wendy Drive
      Newbury Park, California
      (805) 499-7448

      Ojai California
      411 San Antonio Street
      Ojai, California
      (805) 640-8351

      Oxnard California 2nd
      1190 Gary Drive
      Oxnard, California
      (805) 488-6253

      Simi Valley California
      5028 Cochran
      Simi Valley, California
      (805) 581-2456

      Thousand Oaks California
      3645 North Moorpark Road
      Thousand Oaks, California
      (805) 241-9316

      Ventura California
      3501 Loma Vista Road
      Ventura, California
      (805) 643-5607

 

Blogs:


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Holocaust:


Israel:


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Maps:


Military Records:


Miscellaneous:


Newspapers:


Search Websites:


Sephardic:


South Africa:


United States:


 
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