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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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Everything I Know About Hyman Victor
A repository for information about the life of my late great grandfather Hyman Victor, a Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1913.
1883 – 1960
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The woman behind the picture
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?
1828 – 1917
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Nels and Ane Marie: Becoming Americans
Nels Sommer & Ane Marie Jonasen met and married in Denmark and had their first two children there before emigrating to Rockford, Illinois.
21 May 1852 – 18 Mar 1940
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Suttleman Family Odyssey
Tracks the Suttleman/Zitelman family from the area around Rivne, Ukraine to Baltimore, Maryland and Curitiba, Brazil
4/18/1858 – 2011
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Motives for mercy — the consuls of Toulouse
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
May 1940 – July 1940
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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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If walls could talk — 75 years in a Parisian villa
The home of a French Jewish jeweller was "Aryanized" and became a Nazi salon during the Occupation.
1932 – 2013
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A, E, I, O, U, and a P.C. story
A few anecdotes about growing up in New York City as a child of Polish Jewish immigrants.
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Kissing cousins, fifteen times over.
Robert & Dick met at Brown University in 1979. They share fifteen direct Ancestors, and more common lines of descent.
1576 – 1692
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Who Do You Think You Are: Cindy Crawford
This "American mutt" learns about the distant ancestor who immigrated to the US in search of religious freedom... but didn't stay for long!
1633 – 2013
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Vincent Stories and Memories
Christina Elizabeth Nicholls Vincent was my Great-Grandmother. I remember my Mom telling me stories of her life.
1855 – 1908
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Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
1831 – Sep 1979
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Joseph and Sadie Fagan (Part 1)
Part 1: Joseph Fagan's journey from Minsk to New York City
1896 – 1935
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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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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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