She is not smiling for the photo. She is not even looking at the camera. Who is my great grandmother? What does her expression mean?
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and an ongoing interest in genealogy.
In a real tear-jerker of an episode, Christina discovers the painful reasons why her father never knew his mother.
Though raised in a Jewish household, Chelsea confronts her family’s deepest mystery: her grandfather Karl Stöcker’s rumored Nazi past.
Zooey had always heard her Quaker ancestors were active abolitionists, but the extent of their involvement is truly remarkable.
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
The story of how a brave young girl stood up to a financial con artist and proved him wrong.
Schija Ringel and Feiga Kaufler came to Berlin as young people in the 1880s. They had their roots in Jewish Galicia.
Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.