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How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia
Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.
April 15, 1858 – 1950
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The basics of the Treelines Storybuilder
A quick-n-easy user guide to creating your first Treelines story.
1906 – 1934
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Sample Tree Wizard Story
Here is an example of a story automatically generated by the Tree Wizard. Nothing has been edited.
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Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
12/4/1901 – 2000
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Rabbi Adolph Huebsch, Bernhardt, and Us
Our first encounter with Rabbi Huebsch moved us to tears, but is he even related to our (great-)grandfather Bernhardt?
1525 – May 2010
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The Amazing Ancestry of Abraham Phillips
"Born 1808, Philadelphia," read his tombstone in a Mississippi Jewish cemetery. Could I prove my hunch about what that meant?
1668 – May 2013
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Rezekne to Rostov to Albany
The Tulbowitz/Ratner family originated in the Vitebsk region, lived for decades near Rostov-on-Don, and finally settled in Albany, New York.
1818 – 12 AUG 2002
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Ringel-Kaufler roots in Austrian Galicia
Schija Ringel and Feiga Kaufler came to Berlin as young people in the 1880s. They had their roots in Jewish Galicia.
1829 – 5 NOV 1885
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The Rabinowitz family in Jewish Harlem
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans.
1890 – 1950
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Fallacy and family lore—in search of the Kovno Rav
That story about our Rabinowitz family's tie to a famous rabbi is tenuous at best. Here is the true genealogy of Yitchak Elchanon Spektor.
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Abe Ratner in the seltzer business
The Ratner family became established in the Fifth Ward of Albany, N.Y. Abe bottled soda water and Rose nurtured a brood of children.
1890 – 1950
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