The sweep of family history across the generations
In July 2003, Stan and Helga came to the East Bay for a golden summer outing.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Ed loved crosswords, so Dan Ruby created a tribute puzzle for his memorial. Kate and Twyla were the clue crew.
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of Minneapolis, including in the church rectory
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
Outlooks of a pre-millennial
Cherry picking the best content from our founding document written in 2006: "The Ruby Family Histories — The Early Lives of Stanley and Helga Ruby"
In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere Lutheranism for a more ecumenical approach