Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA: Veenkoloniale Genealogieën

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Los Angeles—often simply called L.A.—is the largest city in the state of California and the second-largest in the United States in terms of population. It is an alpha world city having a population of over 4 million people and spanning 469.1 square miles (1214.9 square kilometers). The Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan area is home to 12.9 million people. The Greater Los Angeles Area encompasses a much larger area, consisting of 5 counties.

Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish Captain Rivera y Moncada. It was a part of Spain then Mexico, when Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, until 1848, when Mexico ceded California to the United States by treaty at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. It was not incorporated as a municipality until April 4, 1850—five months before California achieved statehood. It is the county seat of Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles is one of the world's centers of culture, science, technology, international trade, and higher education, and is home to world-renowned institutions in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. The city and its immediate surrounding vicinity lead the world in producing popular entertainment—such as motion picture, television, and recorded music—which forms the base of Los Angeles's international fame and global status.

History

The Los Angeles coastal area was inhabited by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños), Chumash, and earlier Native American nations for thousands of years. The first Europeans to arrive came in 1542, led by João Cabrilho, a Portuguese explorer who claimed the area as the City of God for the Spanish Empire but did not stay. The next contact came 227 years later when Gaspar de Portolà, together with Franciscan padre Juan Crespi, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769.

In 1771, Father Junípero Serra had the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel built near Whittier Narrows in what is now called San Gabriel Valley. On September 4, 1781, a group of 52 settlers from New Spain, which were predominantly of African descent, set out from the San Gabriel mission to establish a settlement along the banks of the Porciúncula River (now Los Angeles River). These settlers were of Filipino,Indian and Spanish ancestry, of whom two-thirds were mestizo or mulatto .

In 1777, the new governor of California, Felipe de Neve, recommended to the viceroy of New Spain that the site be developed into a pueblo (town). The area was duly named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúnculala," ("The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the River Porciúncula"). It remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820 the population had increased to about 650 residents, making it the largest civilian (non-mission) community in Spanish California. Today the outline of the Pueblo is preserved in a historic monument familiarly called Olvera Street, formerly Wine Street, which was named after Agustin Olvera.

New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican-American War, when Americans took control from the Californios after a series of defensive b battles that included the Siege of Los Angeles, the Battle of San Pascual, the Battle of Dominguez Rancho, and ultimately, the Battle of Rio San Gabriel and the Battle of La Mesa in 1847. The Treaty of Cahuenga, signed on January 13, 1847, ended the war in California. Later, with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the Mexican government formally ceded Alta California and other territories to the United States. Europeans and Americans solidified control over the city after they immigrated into California during the California Gold Rush and secured the subsequent admission of California into the United States in 1850.

Railroads arrived when the Southern Pacific completed its line to Los Angeles in 1876. Oil was discovered in 1892, and by 1923 Los Angeles was supplying one-quarter of the world's petroleum. Even more important to the city's growth was water. IIn 1913, led by William Mulholland, the aqueduct's completion assured the city's growth. In 1915, the City of Los Angeles began annexation of dozens of neighboring communities without water supplies of their own. The 1974 motion picture Chinatown presents a fictionalized account of the Owens Valley Water War.

In the 1920s the motion picture and aviation industries both flocked to Los Angeles and helped with its further development. The city was the proud host of the 1932 Summer Olympics which saw the development of Baldwin Hills as the original Olympic Village. This period also saw the arrival of the exiles from the increasing pre-war tension in Europe, including such notables as Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, and Lion Feuchtwanger. World War II brought new growwth and prosperity to the city, although many of its Japanese-American residents were transported to internment camps for the duration of the war. The post-war years saw an even greater boom as urban sprawl expanded the city into the San Fernando Valley.

The Watts riots in 1965 and Chicano High School "blowouts" along with the 1970 Chicano Moratorium showed the nation the deep racial divisions that existed in the city. In 1969, Los Angeles was one of two birthplaces of the Internet, as the first ARPANET transmission was sent from UCLA to SRI in Menlo Park. Los Angeles was one of the first cities to pass a gay rights bill in the 1970s and the first since the early 1980s where AIDS was discovered..

The XXIII Olympiad was hosted in Los Angeles. In the mid-late 1980s Los Angeles was the "capital" of the heavy metal music scene. The city was once again tested by the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and in 2002, the attempted secession by the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood sections of the city, both of which were defeated at the polls. Urban redevelopment and gentrification have been taking place in various parts of the city, most notably Downtown.

Demographics

2000 census

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 3,694,820 people, 1,275,412 households, and 798,407 families residing in the city. The population density was 7,876.8 people per square mile (3,041.3/km²). There were 1,337,706 housing units at an average density of 2,851.8 per square mile (1,101.1/km²).

The racial makeup of the city was 46.9% White, 12.0% African American, 10.0% Asian, 1.0% Native American, 25.9% from other races, and 5.2% from two or more races. 46.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race and 29.7% were White, not of Latino/Hispanic origins.

There were 2,275,412 households of which 33.5% had children under 18, 41.9% were married couples, 14.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families. 28.5% of households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size 3.56.

The age distribution was: 26.6% under 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.

The median income for a household was $36,687, and for a family was $39,942. Males had a median income of $31,880, females $30,197. The per capita income was $20,671. 22.1% of the population and 18.3% of families were below the poverty line. 30.3% of those under the age of 18 and 12.6% of those aged 65 or older were below the poverty line.

It is also of interest to note that the post-1950 population increase did not occur exclusively in suburban or peripheral locations. While many other American cities have experienced central area population declines, the opposite has has been true here. The increase in the central area population is due, in part, to Los Angeles' large immigrant population.

In the period from 1920 to 1960, African Americans from the Southeast U.S. arrived in Los Angeles and its population grew 15 times. Since 1990, the African American population dropped in half as its middle class relocated to the suburbs, notably the Antelope Valley and Inland Empire and Latinos have moved into the once predominantly African American district of South Los Angeles. African Americans still remain predominant in some portions of the city, including Hyde Park, Crenshaw District, Leimert Park, and Baldwin Hills (as well as neighboring View Park-Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights) which is considered to be one of the wealthiest majority-black neighborhoods in the United States. Los Angeles still has the largest African-American community of any city in the western United States.

National origins

Of 2,182,114 U.S.-born people, 1,485,576 were born in California, 663,746 were born in a different state of the United States, and 61,792 were born in a United States territory.

Of 1,512,720 foreign born people, 100,252 were born in Europe, 376,767 were born in Asia, 64,730 were born in Africa, 94,104 were born in Caribbean/Oceania, 996,996 were born in Latin America, and 13,859 were born in Canada. Of such foreign-born people, 569,771 entered between 1990 to March 2000. 509,841 are naturalized citizens and 1,002,879 are not citizens.

By the next national census, Los Angeles is expected to have a Latino majority for the first time since 1850. The city has the second largest foreign-born population of any major U.S. city, after Miami. The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the number one entry for immigrants in the country. The Hispanic (Mexico, Central America and South America), Asian American, and Caribbean populations are growing particularly quickly — the Asian-American population is the largest of any U.S. city, which contains the largest concentration of Los Angeles County's 1.4 million Asians. Los Angeles hosts the largest populations of Cambodians, Iranians, Armenians, Belizeans, Bulgarians, Ethiopians, Filipinos, Guatemalans, Hungarians, Koreans, Israelis,Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, Thais, and Pacific Islanders such as Samoans in both the U.S. and world outside of their respective countries. Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese living in the United States, and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country. It is also home to the second largest concentration of Russians and people of Jewish descent in the Americas, after New York City. Los Angeles experienced minor waves of European immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the city has sizeable populations of German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, Serb, Spanish, Croatian and Ukrainian descent.

Los Angeles is home to people from more than 140 countries speaking at least 224 different languages. Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Little Persia, Little Tokyo, and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot character of Los Angeles.

Birth

Matches 1 to 16 of 16

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth	Person ID	Tree
1	Barton, Richard Ernest	15 Jan 1936	I449114	savenije
2	Chaplin, Sydney Earle	31 Mar 1926	I670436	savenije
3	Crosby, Dennis Michael	13 Jul 1934	I589711	savenije
4	Crosby, Gary Evan	27 Jun 1933	I589698	savenije
5	Crosby, Lindsay Harry	05 Jan 1938	I589729	savenije
6	Crosby, Philip Lang	13 Jul 1934	I589705	savenije
7	Doorlag, Jerry Donald	27 May 1924	I321127	savenije
8	Douglas, Eric	21 Jun 1958	I668051	savenije
9	Fenton, Richard Leo	18 Sep 1935	I451637	savenije
10	Flynn, Sean Leslie	31 May 1941	I673995	savenije
11	Goldbogen, Michael	08 Oct 1929	I671298	savenije
12	Haley, John Joseph	25 Oct 1933	I691177	savenije
13	Layne, Bernice	19 Nov 1908	I679829	savenije
14	Mortenson, Norma Jeane	01 Jun 1926	I672921	savenije
15	Orsatti, Victor Manuel	25 Nov 1905	I673189	savenije
16	Strode, Woodrow Wilson Woolwine	25 Jul 1914	I684513	savenije

Death

Matches 1 to 50 of 119

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death	Person ID	Tree
1	Aadland, Beverly Elaine	05 Jan 2010	I674007	savenije
2	Abas, Sara	01 Dec 1978	I88495	savenije
3	Arquette, Lewis Michael	10 Feb 2001	I679316	savenije
4	Austerlitz, Frederick	22 Jun 1987	I684456	savenije
5	Ayer, Adele Augusta	10 Aug 1938	I192825	savenije
6	Ayres, Lewis Frederick	30 Dec 1996	I691170	savenije
7	Ball, Lucille Desiree	26 Apr 1989	I691186	savenije
8	Beilharz, Perceval James	22 Aug 1947	I451561	savenije
9	Beilharz, William Eugene	09 Jul 1957	I451562	savenije
10	Beilharz, William Tobias	14 Mar 1954	I451553	savenije
11	Bennett, Richard	22 Oct 1944	I739645	savenije
12	Bertrand, Marcia Lynne	27 Jan 2007	I681422	savenije
13	Bogart, Humphrey	14 Jan 1957	I192230	savenije
14	Bower, Sophie Mildred	15 Apr 1974	I258244	savenije
15	Brando, Marlon	18 Jul 1965	I673550	savenije
16	Brando, Marlon	01 Jul 2004	I673549	savenije
17	Brandsen, Johanna Theodora	05 Mar 1995	I740854	savenije
18	Broers, Jantje	06 Feb 1949	I557805	savenije
19	Brooks, Hazel	18 Sep 2002	I673912	savenije
20	Brul, Bernard Johannes	25 Aug 1951	I14139	savenije
21	Carpenter, Harlean Harlow	07 Jun 1937	I672280	savenije
22	Cooper, Frank James	13 May 1961	I676129	savenije
23	Coppola, August Floyd	27 Oct 2009	I678942	savenije
24	Cymboliak, Alexandra Mary	27 Dec 1987	I670379	savenije
25	Davis, Jacqueline Louise	17 Apr 1986	I447479	savenije
26	DeFina, Dolores	19 Sep 2011	I684509	savenije
27	Deuling, Gerardus Henderikus	26 Dec 1979	I175702	savenije
28	Deuling, Johanna Helena	30 Jan 1951	I175696	savenije
29	Dillon, Josephine	10 Nov 1971	I672272	savenije
30	van Dommelen, Isidore Louis Bernard Edmon	29 Oct 1934	I688262	savenije
31	Doorlag, Jerry Donald	30 Jan 1993	I321127	savenije
32	Dowling, Doris	18 Jun 2004	I674163	savenije
33	Eichelbaum, Pearl Leah	1934	I691147	savenije
34	Fojacci, Jennie	24 Feb 1958	I669425	savenije
35	Fonda, Henry Jaynes	12 Aug 1982	I258230	savenije
36	Gabor, Eva	04 Jul 1995	I671203	savenije
37	Garity, Genevieve Isabelle	04 Oct 1986	I667428	savenije
38	Gibbons, Austin Cedric	26 Jul 1960	I673909	savenije
39	Goldsmith, Robert Allan	08 May 2009	I322219	savenije
40	Gore, Altovise Joanne	14 Mar 2009	I684722	savenije
41	Gough, Michael	23 Jul 1984	I691152	savenije
42	Haley, John Joseph	06 Jun 1979	I691178	savenije
43	Hamlish, Marvin Frederick	06 Aug 2012	I678392	savenije
44	Harrison, George	29 Nov 2001	I681235	savenije
45	Hawkes, Edith Louisa Sylvia	29 Jun 1977	I686902	savenije
46	Haymes, Richard Benjamin	28 Mar 1980	I673986	savenije
47	Heemstra, Henrietta Frances	15 May 1987	I731602	savenije
48	Henstra, Siemen	06 Jun 1958	I276194	savenije
49	Hilton, Conrad Nicholson	31 Mar 1969	I671063	savenije
50	Holden, Jack L	13 Jan 1972	I572865	savenije

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Marriage

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	Family	Marriage	Family ID	Tree
1	Barton / Fenton	18 Jan 1958	F175237	savenije
2	Beilharz / Dietz	26 Nov 1939	F176017	savenije
3	Beilharz / Patz	18 Sep 1943	F176016	savenije
4	Bogart / Methot	20 Aug 1938	F76844	savenije
5	Brul / Richardson	19 Nov 1930	F5516	savenije
6	Conroy / Beilharz	30 May 1952	F176009	savenije
7	Dougherty / Mortenson	19 Jun 1942	F256659	savenije
8	Fenton / Holton	1959	F176040	savenije
9	Goldsmith / Bretas	04 Aug 2007	F126380	savenije
10	Harper / Dern	23 Dec 2005	F259848	savenije
11	Rogers / Boekweg	09 Oct 1943	F145890	savenije
12	Sammons / Buckway	23 Dec 1944	F145885	savenije
13	Shean / Handley	22 Aug 1915	F174758	savenije
14	Zappa / Sloatman	21 Sep 1967	F259044	savenije

	Family	Divorce	Family ID	Tree
1	Schwarzenegger / Shriver	09 May 2011	F256559	savenije
2	Vail Converse / Morgan	10 Apr 1925	F279544	savenije