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Guide to Revolutionary War Records in the L.A. Area Libraries - $6.00

The San Fernando Valley Genealogical Society was organized January 18, 1981. Alexander White, a Dean at UCLA gave beginning and advanced classes that summer. The first publishing project, Guide to Revolutionary War Records in L.A. Area Libraries (1985), was started at Alexander White's suggestion. He had collected bibliographies of Revolutionary War resources for years and was interested in making it available to researchers. Alexander White and Muriel Fisher, then president of the society, arranged the first organizational meeting on Saturday March 21, 1982. There were many volunteers helping with the Revolutionary War Project. Five major libraries were checked. Ed Coles was the project coordinator and he double checked all the work.

Genealogical Holdings in the Mark Harrington Library - $1.00

The second publication was Genealogical Holdings in the Mark Harrington Library (1985).These were books belonging the the San Fernando Valley Historical Society and located at the Andres Pico Adobe, 10940 Sepulveda Boulevard, Mission Hills CA. Sterling Jensen inventoried the library for this publication.

The 7-Generation Book
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(Out of Print)

The third publication was the 7 - Generation Charts published in 1987. Project coordinator was Eva Meline. Members contributed their 7 - generation charts.

San Fernando Valley Vital Statistics, Newspaper Abstracts Volume I (1911-1925) - $9.00 and
 Volume II (1926-1934)- $11.00

The fourth publication, San Fernando Valley Vital Statistics, Newspaper Extracts, Volume I, 1911-1925 was published in 1987. Sterling Jensen was the Extraction Project Manager. The names of the papers were Lankershim Laconic and Lankershim Press. The fifth publication was San Fernando Valley Vital Statistics, Newspaper Extracts, Volume II, 1926-1934 published in 1992. Sterling Jensen was Extraction Project Manager.

San Fernando Valley Vital Statistics, Newspaper Abstracts Volumes III and IV are completed.

Muriel Fisher was Project Extraction Manager. Loren Gardiner entered most of the information on the computer for volume III, and Dot Buckstaff has entered Volume IV. There were many volunteers on all of these publishing projects.

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San Fernando Valley Genealogical Society
PO Box 3486
Winnetka, CA 91396-3486
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