The sweep of family history across the generations
Rosa Ringel married Pinkas Twiasschor in a borough of London in January 1911, at the same time that Twiasschor's sister wed another Berlin businessman. What was that all about?
The Ratner family became established in the Fifth Ward of Albany, N.Y. Abe bottled soda water and Rose nurtured a brood of children.
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
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
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
Sholom and Sophie Tulbowitz left their ancestral town in the 1870s to settle for 20 years in Russia near Rostov-on-Don.
She made each of her six grandchildren feel special
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
During the Depression, families helped each other out. The Kleins moved in with the Rubys in Long Beach.
Stan was smart and fresh, with something to say about almost anything
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Rearing eight children in Albany’s Third Ward
Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York
The Tulbowitz tavern in Novocherkassk was overrun by Cossacks during the Rostov pogrom of 1881
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
During the course of my genealogy work, I have discovered and connected with cousins from all my family branches. Here are some lessons learned.
The Twiasschors settled in Berlin in several waves from Kolomiya, Ukraine
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.
Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.