FAMILY HISTORY CENTER
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Latter-day Saints Regional Family History Center Formerly Family History Center 10741 Santa Monica Blvd West Los Angeles, CA 90025 310-474-9990 Richard McBride, Director Jon Schweitzer, Webmaster What is a FHC? Before You Visit The LARFHC How to Get Started The Los Angeles Regional Family History Center or LARFHC was established in 1964 to service the needs of the then 6.4 million citizens of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Non members are welcome and there is no charge for facility use. Last year 60% of those coming to the LARFHC were not members of the Church. The LARFHC has the LARGEST holdings of any branch in the Family History Library System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The center has access to the 2.4 million microfilms in the Salt Lake City Family History Library. The LARFHC offers patrons:
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USE THE NEW FAMILYSEARCH WEBSITE to search for genealogy resources on the Internet. See it HERE. Use the NEW Internet "FHL Favorites" Websites by using the big yellow star icon on any montior at the LARFHC. Elsewhere you can find it HERE. INTRODUCTION TO NEW FAMILYSEARCH CLASS Starts on July 13, 20, 27 and Aug 3, 10, 17 See more information ANCESTRY.COM IS BACK AGAIN! Free and better than ever See more information A Big Explosion of New Online Databases at the LARFHC See more information Free Genealogy Programs to use at the LARFHC See more information Order Microfilm By Mail Recent Film/Fiche Orders "F" Special Films Book Holdings Search NEW --- Quaker Sources - 21 Large databases from the FHLC and what's at the LARFHC. Heritage Quest (H.Q.) is now available Free online at the LARFHC! See this link about how to research H.Q.. http://www.larfhc.org/hqresearch.htm H.Q. has all 1790 - 1930 census images online. All computers will have FULL ACCESS to everything at Ancestry.com. Suggest you see the following link about research using the limited Ancestry Library Edition at other libraries and locations. http://www.larfhc.org/ancestrycomres.htm All patrons are invited to participate in the FamilySearch Indexing Projects. They will take the place of Ancestry.com and will be free to everyone online. See the information HERE. You must have Broadband and XP or Vista OR come to the LARFHC and use one of our computers. There is free class information List of site pages National Archives Holdings - Subjects Passenger Lists - New York 1820-1897 Research Notebooks - 76 Scottish Research - Censuses - 6 webpages Administration Districts - 7 webpages Nuestro Inventario de Microfilms de America Latina Genealogical Free Blank Forms - Print See the above new links and more new links in the "SITE and LINKS INDEX" above and left. UPCOMING EVENTSTraveling? Plan on attending other genealogy events around the country. If you would like your local event listed, please submit a few sentences with your Website
address to the Webmaster. Events will be edited when necessary. Can't find your ancestors? Review the common errors everyone makes and try again. |
This Center is now called the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center or LARFHC. Come to the LARFHC and we can show you how you can find your ancestors. Come into the LARFHC to use a computer to gain FREE access to everything on Ancestry.com and obtain help from the many knowledgeable genealogy consultants. Learn more by attending the FREE classes offered every month. 10741 Santa Monica Blvd West Los Angeles, CA 90025 (north of the temple) 310-474-9990 MAP The LARFHC is located behind the Los Angeles LDS Temple on "Temple Hill" and downstairs in the Visitor's Center. Access is via the east side of the Visitor's Center. Directions From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), exit on Overland going north to Santa Monica Boulevard. Turn right on "Big" Santa Monica Boulevard then an immediate left on Manning Avenue, first left on Eastbourne and the entrance to Temple Hill. Follow the signs to the Temple Visitor's Center. Email the Webmaster with only site errors and contributions and the LARFHC for Richard McBride and other matters. Copyright 2001-2008 © Los Angeles Regional Family History Center - Revised 16 July 2008. Disclaimer of Liability and Endorsement - external website links: As a courtesy, in this site, we have provided links to external sites that help us perform our mission to assist genealogy researchers in their work. The LARFHC assumes no legal liability or responsibility associated with the use of the external sites or endorsement of the external sites.
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