The sweep of family history across the generations
After service in the War of 1812, Vermonter George Haskell set out with his third wife and many previous children for new lands in the west
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
German refugees in the UK, even Jews like Gerhart Feidt, were deemed potential enemy aliens
In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
Three brothers of the Kleemann family from the Weinberg district of 19th century Danzig operated a coffee and tea import business. Hugo Lewi married into the family and was a dealer in military effects.
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.