meeting distant relatives

Connecting with lost or unknown family relations

Harriet Berkowitz was doubly distanced from her Rabinowitz roots, first by her father’s partial family estrangement and then by his divorce. But…

Seymour, also called Samuel, was partly estranged from the family. He worked as a truant officer in the New York City schools. His daughter…

If Sholom Tulbowitz had gone to Dvinsk instead of Rostov, as his cousin did, his Ratner descendants might have grown up in Perm instead of Albany…

When his siblings went to Berlin in the 1880s, Jakob Schia Ringel went to Hamburg, then Glasgow and Montreal. His two daughters raised families in…

During the course of my genealogy work, I have discovered and connected with cousins from all my family branches. Here are some lessons learned.…