The sweep of family history across the generations
Dan supplemented his attendance at a Warsaw genealogy conference with a tour of family locations. Read his blog postings and view the post-trip video coverage.
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors
In 1812 in Preußisch Stargardt, an elderly Jew Moses and his sons Salomon and Herz took the surname Wohlgemuth in exchange for Prussian citizenship rights. Our family, descended from Herz Wohlgemuth, stayed in Stargardt for the next three generations
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and a new pastime in genealogy