Your Pop-pop and I want you to know about our parents, for whom you were named.
A repository for information about the life of my late great grandfather Hyman Victor, a Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1913.
I believe that I was chosen before I came here to write about those who wanted their stories told which is why I was a wondering child...
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
Singer Kelly Clarkson learns about her third great-grandfather's Civil War experiences and subsequent career as a public servant.
A first experiment searching historic newspaper archives is successful, but yields a ghastly surprise.
The Tulbowitz/Ratner family originated in the Vitebsk region, lived for decades near Rostov-on-Don, and finally settled in Albany, New York.
Schija Ringel and Feiga Kaufler came to Berlin as young people in the 1880s. They had their roots in Jewish Galicia.
The Ratner family became established in the Fifth Ward of Albany, N.Y. Abe bottled soda water and Rose nurtured a brood of children.