Presented to the Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society in December 2011.

1. Family History at The Magnes
Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Lara Michels
Archivist, The Magnes Collection
lmichels@library.berkeley.edu

2. Moving the Judah L. Magnes Museum

3. The Magnes Collection of
Jewish Art and Life

4. Change brings Challenges and
Opportunities

5. Magnes @ Allston

6. Magnes @ Bancroft
 Western Americana
archival collections
 Cataloged in
OSKICAT/OAC
 Served in Bancroft
Reading Room
 Approximately 185
archival collections
now open to
researchers @
Bancroft

11. Family and Personal Papers

12. Institutional
Records

13. Congregational Records

14. Business Records

15. Think Broadly!

16. Processing the Congregation Sherith
Israel records (BANC MSS 2010/720)

22. What’s in the Sherith Israel records?
 Administrative  Rabbis and Cantors
 Correspondence  Marriage
 Financial  Liturgy, Services and
 Building and Property Holidays
 Cemetery  Sisterhood and
Brotherhood
 Membership
 Subject Files
 Religious School
 Newsletters
 Bar/Bat Mitzvah and
Confirmation  Scrapbooks
 Photographs

23. Administrative and Correspondence

24. Financial

25. More Financial

26. Cemetery

27. More Cemetery

28. Membership

29. Marriage

30. Religious School, Bar/Bat Mitzvah,
Confirmation