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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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1920s Best of Friends
85 years later, a niece and a great-grand niece rediscover a friendship that lasted a lifetime and spanned three continents
1904 – 2013
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From the Ancient Dead to the Recent Dead
How I almost became an archaeologist instead of a genealogist.
April 1989 – March 2013
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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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Mossbauer man — Stan makes his mark in physics
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
1958 – 1996
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Tulbowitz in the USSR — an alternative history
If Sholom Tulbowitz had gone to Dvinsk instead of Rostov, his Ratner descendants might have grown up in Perm instead of Albany.
1880 – 1950
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