Here are the important dates and facts you’ll want to know about the 30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy:

Conference Dates:
Sunday-Friday, July 11-16, 2010.

Conference Venue:
The brand new JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE, in downtown Los Angeles.

Hotel Registration:
Open now. RESERVE YOUR ROOM ONLINE HERE! for the JW Marriott, or call 1-800-228-9290 (in the US). Make sure to identify as a participant in the IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, and also that you specifically want the JW Marriott at L.A. Live (there is another Marriott downtown).

Room rates are $199 per room, single or double, including free wireless Internet access. For triple or quad, it is $20 per person additional. The special rate is available for three days pre- and post-conference.

Call for Papers:
Opens November 15, 2009 via online abstract submittal, Closes January 15, 2010. Speakers will be notified by February 15, 2010. Handout/resource material is due by March 1, 2010. Here are some potential topics, so put on your thinking caps and get ready!

• Cemetery research, documentation and preservation
• Converso/B’nai Anousim research
• Computer Training Workshops
• Eastern and Central European research
• Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948
• Genetics and DNA Research
• “Hollywood,” movie-making and the Jewish community
• Holocaust research
• Immigration, naturalization and migration
• Jewish History of Los Angeles and the state of California
• Methodology
• Non-European research (e.g. India, China)
• Oral histories and memoirs
• Persian Jewish research
• Pioneer Jews
• Rabbinical research
• Repositories
• Record preservation
• Sephardic research
• South and Central American research
• Technology and Internet resources
• United States/North American research
• Western European research
• Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley/klezmer music/Broadway

Conference Program:
This will go live in early 2010, but the website, blog, Twitter and Facebook, as well as announcement lists will make special speaker/program details available as confirmed.

Stay tuned to this blog for more from JGSLA 2010!