Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end

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?

Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin

Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors

A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and a new pastime in genealogy