This story is about the factors that entered into my decision to delve into the family history and how it came to be.
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
Ten years after nearly hanging for stealing deer from a nearby manor, Tricia's ancestor would suffer Indians stealing animals from his land.
"Born 1808, Philadelphia," read his tombstone in a Mississippi Jewish cemetery. Could I prove my hunch about what that meant?