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Immigrant Genealogical Society
- IGS -

© copyright 1996-2005 by John Movius; all rights reserved
Latest Update: 25 July 2005

Postal Address:
IGS
P. O. Box 7369
Burbank, California 91510-7369

CEFHA Representative: Marilyn Deatherage, Corresponding Secretary
(Please use the above address)
Telephone: (818) 348-6444
FAX: (818) 716-6300

IGS Library and office location:
1310-B West Magnolia Boulevard
Burbank California
(Please - NO mail is delivered to this storefront walk-in address)
Telephone: (818) 848-3122 (only answered during library hours)
FAX: (80 18) 716-6300

President: Ron Grider
(Please use P. O. Box listed above)
Telephone (at home): (818) 363-0721

Background - Founding: The Immigrant Genealogical Society (IGS) was founded in North Hollywood, California in 1982 to help Americans trace their ancestors' origins, particularly in the German speaking areas of Europe.

IGS Headquarters--During July 1989 the Society moved its headquarters to Burbank where it conducts its business as a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. All Society activities are carried out by its member volunteers.
Donations to the IGS Donations of cash and books are tax-deductible. Tax-deductible cash donations for the purchase of Library materials and supplies are always welcomed.

Publications:
IGS Library--At its headquarters, the Society houses the Immigrant Library. The IGS Library is an expansion of Elisabeth Sharp and Gerda Haffner's personal collection of German and American genealogical books. Many IGS members have donated books to the collection.

About half of the IGS Library collection relates to American genealogy. However it is best known for its sizeable collection of German materials, not available elsewhere in the United States. The IGS Library is open to the public three days each week (see "IGS Library Hours" below). It is staffed by trained members of the Society. Use of the Library is free to members. A donation of US$2.00 per visit is requested from non-members.

IGS Library Hours are as follows: Services--The Immigrant Genealogical Society serves researchers in the greater Los Angeles area and throughout the world by many means: IGS Record Searches -- Through our Research Committee, volunteers open the unique resources of the Immigrant Library to genealogists across the United States and overseas via mail requests. Searches now offered include: German telephone books on CDs; Numerous maps, gazetteers and atlases; Indexes to surnames researched by German genealogists; Lists of German genealogists; Published lists of arriving immigrants; First Immigrants List database of over 3,500 persons; and over 100 volumes of German genealogies.

IGS offers the following Research Services. They are listed below with links to more details on each of them. Those in Bold are the latest additions or updates:
Genealogy Seaches for Overseas Germans: During 1993 IGS began offering two searches to genealogists in Germany. The response has been enthusiastic. Persons in Germany are enabled to contact descendants of relatives who emigrated to America. Branches of families are being reunited with one another in Germany as well as with U.S. descendants. These searches will be posted in Deutsch and linked to this IGS HomePage soon

Research Director: Jean Nepsund
(Please use P. O. Box above)
Telephone (home): (818) 991-9475
Her eMail address (Lura Perkins fowards your eMail to Jean): lural@juno.com

Membership Dues:
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