Abraham Ratner
The founder of our Ratner family in America was born Abraham Bloch in Minsk. He came to Rostov,…
Isaak Wohlgemuth
Our Wohlgemuth family patriarch embraced the values and culture of assimilated German Jewry in…
Rose Tulbowitz
Pogrom victim as a girl in Russia became the Ratner family matriarch in Albany, New York
Isidor Topp
Associate of Sidney Kessler who managed distillery construction and operations in Puerto Rico.…
Bertha Yesersky
The mother of Joseph Rabinowitz may have been the daughter of Abram Yesersky of Vaukavysk, whose…
Knud Knudsen
Connecticut industrialist and inventor who purchased the rights to Walter Ruby's corkscrew…
Sidney Kessler
Walter Ruby's boss in the liquor business became an influential figure an Innovator in the…
Julius Wohlgemuth
The fourth child of Leopold and Friedereke Wohlgemuth, later the co-owner of the Danzig …
Rosalie Wohlgemuth
The unmarried daughter of Leopold and Friedreke Wohlgmuth became a Berlin art dealer who…
Hilda Wohlgemuth
The Wohlgemuth daughter who married well after the war and lived fabulously…
Isaak Paechter
The younger brother of Friedereke Paechter Wohlgemutgh
Joseph Liebman
The rough-cut Parisian jeweler who married our aunt Hilda
Emile Gissot
The Portuguese honorary consul in Toulouse, France, who issued life-saving visas to war refugees…
Schifra Tulbowitz
With her husband Scholom Aron Tulbowitz, Schifra (known as Sophie) migrated thousands of miles…
Leopold Wohlgemuth
One of the Wohlgemuth family from Stargardt, the son of Abraham, who fathered five children…
Harry Ruby
The noted American composer and screenwriter who may have inspired Walter…
Chien-Shiung Wu
Stan's graduate research advisor who was a prominent Chinese-American experimental physicist
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
The eminent rabbi from Kovno to whom our Rabinowitz branch may be distantly related
Gerhard Feidt
Later Gerald Fyte
Rosa Lewi
The mother of Gerald Fyte was the only Lewi sibling who survived the Nazi persecution
Gustav Lewi
German composer and pianist whose career was interrupted by the Nazi repressions. He was the…
Franziska Lewi
The Lewi sibling who married a Christian cousin. She perished with her husband at Teresienstadt…
Moritz Feidt
Descendant of Rothschild family who founded a Berlin department store chain. Husband of Rosa…
Schija Ringel
Settled in Berlin in the early 1880s
Moses Ringel
Patriarch of our Ringel branch. He fathered eight children with Rose Lea Reichmann in the…
Gerald Clerc
Gerald Clerc is the son of Arnoud Clerc who carried on the family brand in the luxury watch…
Regina Twiasschor
Daughter of Betty Ringel and Pinkas Twiasschor. Known as Gina. She escaped Berlin with her…
Theodor Kleemann
Purveyor of "colonial goods"—tea, coffee and spices—in Danzig during the times of the German…
Stanislaw Dygat
Polish author and screenwriter who served as the consul of the Polish government in Toulouse,…
Rosa Ringel
Sister of Hermann Ringel who perished in a Belgrade mobile killing van
Margot Shatner
Daughter of Rosa Ringel who perished in a mobile killing van in Belgrade in 1942.
Betty Ringel
Sister of Hermann Ringel who married Pinkas Twiasschor and raised two daughters on her own after…
Ze'ev Sharon
Born Woif Schattner, Ze'ev went to Palestine as a young man, and therefore escaped the fate of…
Amalie Katz
Cousin of Betty Wohlgemuth who made her funeral arrangements in February 1942. Three months…
Joan Ruby
Daughter of Walter Ruby and Selma Ratner. Brother of Stanley. Mother of Wendy, Marsha and Robert…
Dina Twiasschor
The sister of Pinkas Twiasschor who perished in Kolomea with her husband and son. A daughter,…
Jean-Jacques Richard
Blogger on the history of the French jewelry industry who was instrumental in uncovering the…
Morris Spector
An early investigator and expert in the genealogy of Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanon Spektor who guided…
Shirley Portnoy
Genealogist whose path I kept crossing during my work.
Twyla Eilertsen Ruby
Twyla's graduate education in the history of science prepared her for a career in museum…
Judith Bennett Eilertsen
Little sister of the Montana Bennetts married Minnesota minister Ed Eilertsen and raised three…
Kathleen (Kate) Eilertsen
Minnesota minister's daughter who went east and then west to make her career as an artist…
Eilert Osmundsen
Father of Jacob Eilertsen
Herbert E. Stetson
Maine educator who went west and raised a family in Iowa. They later resettled in Montana, where…
Harriet E. Smith
Raised as Hattie Smith in North Bloomfield, Ohio, she married Herbert Stetson in Earlville, Iowa…
Hezekiah Stetson
From Pembroke in the Plymouth Colony, he resettled in the Maine District after serving in the…
Isetta Stetson
Montana society girl who raised five Bennett children
Josiah Tilson Stetson
Prominent in Sumner, Maine as deacon of the Congregational Church.
James Vincent Bennett
An Irish-American on the prairie
Ruth P. Haskell
Exemplar of the Haskell family's westward migration was twice married and widowed and bore three…
Captain George Henry Haskell
From the Massachusetts Haskell family who settled successively in Vermont, New York and Ohio.…
Thomas Nelson Haskell
Youngest son of Captain Haskell was a man of letters, Congregationalist minister and a founder…
Martha Haskell
Daughter of Captain Haskell born in Chautauqua who married Josiah T. Smith in Trumbull County,…
Levi Smith
Early settler in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, in the Ohio Western Reserve
Patty Smith
The twice-widowed Ohioan set off for a new adventure in Iowa
Arvilla Delight Smith
Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…
Roger Haskell Jr.
The younger Haskell remained with his family in Mina, N.Y. after George Haskell moved on to Ohio…
Josiah Smith
Revolutionary War veteran whose descendants settled Ohio, Iowa and points west
Nathan Cook Meeker
Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was…
Josephine Meeker
Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre.…
Ralph Lovejoy Meeker
Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant…
Celestia Bradley
Daughter of Patty Smith Bradley Sweat. Wife of Mansel Wicks.
George (Piser) Ratner
First son of Abe and Rose Ratner whose intermarriage to Emma Paeglow caused a family rift…
Julius Paechter
Progenitor of the Paechter family branch in Tiegenhof
Jakob Schia Ringel
The Ringel brother who came to North America
Juda Leib Ringel
Brother of Schija Ringel who was a slaughterer in Berlin
Kevin Jenkins
Technical visionary responsible for Family History Machine's technical development
Mark Zimkin
Long-lost Rabinowitz family descendant was the key to understanding the Zimkin branch
Rebe Eisenstein
A Zimkin family in-law who provided important memories of the Rabinowitz family
Brice Rustad
Brookhaven physicist who collaborated with Stanley Ruby on the He6 recoil experiment…
Your male ancestor
An ancestor or other person who played an important role in the family story.
Your female ancestor
A principle participant in family story events
Julius Rabinowitz
First-born child of Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz. He worked as a bookkeeper in a dry-goods store.…
Judith N. Robbins
Daughter of Julius Rabinowitz
Joseph Rabinowitz
The progenitor of the Rabinowitz/Ruby/Robbins family in America descended from a branch of the…
Elly Wohlgemuth
A cultured and affluent Berlin Jewish widow who escaped from Europe with her teenage daughter,…
Jean-Jacques Richard
French jewelry blogger who opened doors to discovery of the Clerc-Liebman history
Dan Ruby
Editorial technologist who created Family History Machine
Walter Ruby
The youngest son of the immigrant Rabinowitz family, Walter Ruby reinvented himself…
Walter Ruby (the younger)
The eldest child of Stanley and Helga Ruby turned his youthful zeal for the Jewish state into a…
Selma Ratner
Daughter of Abe and Rose Ratner of Albany. Married Walter Ruby. Mother of Joan and Stanley.…
Betty Katz
Isaak Wohlgemuth's widow lived comfortably in Berlin's Bavarian Quarter. She chose to remain in…
Edith Twiasschor
Ringel-Twiasschor family member who, along with her sister, escaped from Germany to London in…
Helga Ringel
Born into a German Jewish family, she escaped with her mother at age 14 and built a new life as…
Stanley Ruby
Golden boy from the "greatest generation" inhabited his Jewish-American identity and values. He…
Hirsch Zvi Ringel
Brother of Schija Ringel who was a rabbi in Berlin. Married to Perl Jacobi. Father of eight.…
Louis Darquier de Pellapoix
French aryanization official
Dr. Kurt Blanke
Chief lawyer in the Nazi aryanization process in Paris
Ezra H. Stetson
Prominent shoe manufacturer from South Weymouth, Massachusetts. His brother Herbert Stetson died…
Hermann Ringel
Jewish Berliner who prospered as a wholesaler and later manufacturer of outerwear for…
