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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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Working with Your Family Tree as You Write
A user guide to creating, managing, and extending family trees in the Treelines Storybuilder.
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Losing One Family Member, But Gaining Generations
I consider this my first "genealogy" moment. 1984. I was 9 years old.
1984 – December 1984
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The family secret behind granddad's desk calendar
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and an ongoing interest in genealogy.
October 1937 – August 2006
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Bad News: Headstones and Headlines
A first experiment searching historic newspaper archives is successful, but yields a ghastly surprise.
1900 – 8/4/2013
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Samuel Carter, Mormon Pioneer
Samuel Carter left England with his wife and family in 1862 as a Mormon Pioneer.
1815 – 1888
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Martin and Mary McGarry
The story of the marriage of my mother's paternal grandparents, Martin and Mary Coll McGarry.
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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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86 and "I wish I were 18 again."
here are stories I have told to my son and daughter, my granddaughter and grandson, and which I hope I can tell to my great granddaughter.
9/26/0916 – October 22, 1977
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Lest we forget — Ringel Holocaust testimony
Rosa Shatner, née Ringel, and her lovely daughter Margot perished in a Serbian death camp. In 1957, Rosa's son Ze'ev Sharon gave testimony.
1943 – 1943
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Our Ruby name — why did Walter choose it?
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? It was 1917, months after the death of his father Joseph..
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