The South Whittier Library will be closed on June 19, 2027, and there will be no regular General Meeting on Zoom or at the library in June.
We will be holding our annual Road Trip on this day, and we are excited ti announce that our road trip this year will be to the Immigrant Genealogical Society Library in Burbank, California. This event is in-person only.
The Immigrant Genealogical Society (IGS) was founded in 1982 to help Americans trace their ancestors' origins, particularly in the German-speaking areas of Europe and the places in the world to which they immigrated.
M. Gordon Seyffert was elected a president of the IGS in 2021. Gordon then led an effort to streamline the library collection and reduce the size of the physical space it occupied. The downsizing effort required scaling the library to focus on its unique German collection and those US states where Germans migrated, and in this digital age, removing items that are readily online.
If you have German ancestry, make sure you join us for our road trip to this unique library collection and the expertise in German research available at the IGS.
The IGS is in the process of bringing their card catalog online on their newly revamped website. We anticipate that it will be fully operational before our road trip. Check out their website at https://immigrantgensoc.org/ for more information about the Immigrant Genealogical Society,
About Our Road Trip Destination
In 1989, IGS moved to its present location on Magnolia Blvd in Burbank, providing a place to house and share the extensive personal collection of genealogical and historical publication amassed by its founders. As the years went on, the collection continued to grow.
The Immigrant Genealogical Society and Library is located at 1310-B W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91510.
The libary is open on the first and third Saturdays of each month from 10 am to 5 pm.
Admission to the library is free to IGS members. A donation of $5 per visit is requested from non-IGS members.