Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.
Your Pop-pop and I want you to know about our parents, for whom you were named.
She caught the bouquet and I caught the garter. Later that evening, Sylvia made an announcement. Mother is always right!
Some of our best family heirlooms are the things Grammy kept from her wedding.
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
Zooey had always heard her Quaker ancestors were active abolitionists, but the extent of their involvement is truly remarkable.
"Born 1808, Philadelphia," read his tombstone in a Mississippi Jewish cemetery. Could I prove my hunch about what that meant?
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.