This event is in person only. Hours listed are hours the library is open. The beginning and end times of our event may be different. Stay tuned!
We will be returning to the Huntington Beach Central Library for our August Road Trip. There will be no regular general meeting on Zoom or at the Sorensen Library in Whittier this month.
The Huntington Beach Central Library is home to the Genealogy Collection developed and maintained by the Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS). The Genealogy Center is on the lower level of the library and contains over 23,000 volumes. These books are for reference use only (they cannot be checked out).
The Huntington Beach Central Library is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, which gives library patrons access to additional digital records not available outside a family history center or regular public library. There are currently about 400,000 original records in a digital format to which they now have access on dedicated computers in the OCCGS Genealogy Research Room
About Huntington Beach Central Library
The Huntington Beach Central Library resides in a 350-acre (1.4 km2) park and features a beautiful theater, spacious reading areas, and indoor fountains surrounded by a spiral ramp. The Central Library has seven meeting rooms and a 300-seat theater available for rental. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Richard & Dion Neutra. Shortly before the actual signing of the agreement, Richard Neutra passed away while on tour and his son, Dion, completed the original building on April 5th, 1975. In the mid-1990s, the architectural firm of Anthony & Langford was hired to design a 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m2) expansion. The building was expanded to enclose an outdoor spiral ramp and fountain area. The new wing opened in 1994 and included a new Children’s area with its own story time theater. The lower level featured 7 new meeting rooms and a theater.
The Huntington Beach Public Library is commonly mistaken with the Huntington Library, which is about 40 miles (64 km) north in San Marino near Pasadena, California. The San Marino Huntington Library holds the Gutenberg Bible, the famous "Blue Boy" painting by Thomas Gainsborough, and has many famous gardens.