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How I Got Into Genealogy
Not many people can say they got started at 12, but I did! Here's the full story.
July 1991 – 2013
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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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A 14-year old's quest to find her grandfather
How in finding the man, I discovered my Galician roots.
1849 – 2012
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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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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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The Big Jacobowsky
The story of how I discovered that I'm the descendant of Jewish slave owners from Mississippi.
February 11, 1897 – 2012
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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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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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Who Do You Think You Are: Chelsea Handler
Though raised in a Jewish household, Chelsea confronts her family’s deepest mystery: her grandfather Karl Stöcker’s rumored Nazi past.
1933 – 1944
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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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Phillip Sage's Life
This is the story of the life of Jay Sage's grandfather Phillip Sage.
July 4, 1883 – April 12, 1957
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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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The Ringels in Berlin — the Nazi years
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
1933 – 1938
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