Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end

Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985

Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.

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

Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences

Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.

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

Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.

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