Southern California Genealogical Society
ABOUT SCGS - Member Log-in Overview & Portal
Welcome to the The Southern California Genealogical Society Members section of its website.
Member Log-in

Overview:
The Members section is a secure area of the website, and your email address is the key to access. If you have provided your email address to SCGS, we will probably have an email address on file for you and you're all ready to go.

If you are an SCGS member whose email address is not in our website database because you signed up by mailing in your membership, we will add you as quickly as we are able.  Please We will add the email address you provide to your account.

The Members Area affords access to a number of benefits for SCGS members only:

  • 24/7 Remote access to World Vital Records - coming soon.

    Through World Vital Records, members can search over 5 billion family history and genealogy records and 28 million family trees. Key collections include U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1940, military records, 1 billion newspaper articles, and many other special local and world databases.

  • Archive of Webinars conducted as part of the Jamboree Extension Series. These one-hour presentations are given twice monthly (the first Saturday and third Wednesday) and are conducted by professional genealogical speakers and expert lecturers. The inital broadcast is offered free to the genealogical community as part of SCGS's mission to provide educational services. Archived sessions are available only to SCGS members. The current listing of webinars can be found here
  • Remote access to AccessNewspaperARCHIVE, a collection of thousands of digitized newspapers from around the US.
Video tour of the
SCGS Library & FamilySearch Center

NEW MEMBERS:

If you have never logged into the website or the SCGS shopping cart, you will need to receive a temporary SCGS password before you can log into the Members section for the first time. 

  1. To begin click on "Members: Click here to log-in" link.
  2. Below the login box is a link to "Forgot Your Password."
  3. Click on this link
  4. Type in your email address

Shortly thereafter, you will receive an email with your temporary password.  Return to the Member Log-in page. Enter your email address and temporary password.  If you do not receive this a password via email,

If you wish to Change your Password:

  1. From the Home Page - Go to Shop/ Go to My Account. 
  2. Login to the shopping cart. This will take you to your account summary page.
  3. Click on the link Change My Password.
  4. Type in your current password
  5. Type in your new password
  6. Press Enter

If you have any problems with the Members section, please .

Look for new additions to our Members section coming soon!!


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If you are not yet a member of SCGS and are interested in membership, click here to purchase a membership through our shopping cart. The $35 individual domestic membership (or international e-membership) is a great bargain. SCGS also accepts donations to support the program to insure the Webinar Series will continue to be offered at no cost.

If you are an SCGS member whose email address is not in our website database because you just registered or registered by mail, we will add you as quickly as we are able.  Please   We will add the email address you provide to your account.