Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

First grandchild
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Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985

Kindergarten campaigner
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In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.

Stan finds love outside of a 20-block radius
  • April 1946 - June 1947

Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin

The Felensteins of Long Island
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Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.

The problem with anti-ballistic missiles
  • October 6 1968 - March 10 1969

Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.

The Stetsons of Sumner, Maine
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Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution

Third Generation Rubys
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First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.

Ze'ev and Penina Sharon of Kibbutz Afeq
  • 1935 - 2009

A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.