FHM's vision of an integrated storytelling platform

Family History Machine aims to provide a modular system of storytelling functionality. Our beta site is online with a first iteration of this vision. View an explanatory graphic about current and future FHM modalities.

Open the door to your personal Storyspace

Story development is a creative process. Begin with your story notes and progress to a polished narrative. It all happens in your FHM Storyspace.

During our test phase, Storyspace capability is limited to approved test users. You may apply to be a test user.

Walter's book about personal peacemaking

We Refuse to Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship At a Time, by Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby, is a manifesto for tolerance, dialogue and friendship—but it is more than that. It is also a memoir of a surprising, sometimes challenging friendship.

By Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby

Ruby Family History Project

A Ringel branch in Nisko

The oldest Ringel brother, Hirsch, raised his family in Nisko on the River San, 50 miles north of the family base in Rzeszow, before he later joined the family exodus to Berlin. Nisko was the namesake location for an early Nazi deportation plan to settle Jews on a land reservation stretching from Nisko to Lublin.

Nisko on the River San, where the Hirsch Ringel family settled for 25 years before moving to Berlin.

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Interpreting a spoken foreign-language interview

I didn't have high hopes that I would be able to understand a spoken three-hour interview that an ancestor had given as Holocaust testimony. Even though my German language skills are improving with written text, interpreting spontaneous speech is much more challenging.