The Los Angeles Colony hosted the San Gabriel Colony, and had a great Compact day meeting Nov 6th at the Tam O'Shanter. We where honored with a special visit by George Washington, and

his men as portrayed by C. Roger Cooper. The troops entered the dining room searching for weapons before the General came in, and just as he began to speak a loyalist attemped to disrupt the

meeting by screaming God save the King, and go chop down a cherry tree! She was chased from the room with no casualties.

 

Dr Richard McBride the Director of the Los Angeles Family History Library will be our speaker at the upcoming meeting Feb 19th 2011 at the Odyssey Restaurant in Granada Hills. It will be a joint meeting with the Santa Barbara Colony. Check the map at the Los Angeles Colony website at www.lacolony.org  Dr McBride was our speaker back in July 2008 when he presented the new Family History Search Beta website to us. Dr McBride (professor emeritus at UCLA) has spent the last year doing a huge multi million dollar renovation of his facility which is the largest in the world outside of Salt Lake City.  It took them a year to do it, and the LAFHL Floor Plan

shows the two new classrooms/seminar rooms that can hold up to a hundred people. Dr McBride has offered to have us use one of these rooms for a future meeting, and I think I will take him up on it. Other genealogical groups have been meeting there for a long time. The rooms have been set up with video conferencing so classes can be taught from anyplace in the world, but for the most part Salt Lake City FHC.

 

Their website is amazing with all that it offers including free classes online, and at the facility on many genealogical topics. This facility is state of the art, and I don't know of any place better.

I will say that the Sons of the revolution library in Glendale and the LA Public Library have more Mayflower materials, but they don't have the research intensive capabilities of the LAFHL.

Check out there website at http://www.larfhc.org/ 

 

All Mayflower descendents are invited to attend by just going to our website, clicking on the coin to get to our calender, and then clicking on the february 19th meeting to go to a page with all the information for making a RSVP