Family Story Finder

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.

Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine

Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.

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

Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors

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?

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