The sweep of family history across the generations
Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the Mayflower on one side. Nine generations later, her midwestern parents still upheld Yankee values
Just a bit about Twyla, Gene, Zach and Lani.
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
The Rehm family and related branches have been present in the High Rhine region since at least the 1600s, and remain prominent there today.
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.