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Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

Would you abandon this girl in Liverpool?

tammy

The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.

12/4/1901 – 2000
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  • immigration
  • Rosenbaum Bank
  • Philadelphia
  • Hamburg
  • Liverpool
  • Yorker
  • SKVERSKY
Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)

Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)

Michael McCormick

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
  • 23
  • Church
  • 1st Generation Family
  • Great Famine (Ireland)
  • Northern Ireland
  • Strabane
  • Castlederg
Stan finds love outside of a 10-block radius

Stan finds love outside of a 10-block radius

Dan Ruby

Home from the war, Stan Ruby is a graduate student at Columbia. His bride, Helga Ringel, is a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin.

1947 – 2005
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