The sweep of family history across the generations
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
Ze’evs progency: a new generation of vibrant, contemporary Israelis.
From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.
Schija Ringel came from Poland to seek his fortune in Berlin’s old Jewish district.
A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.