Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

In the Signal Corps in New Guinea
  • -

Stan strung transmission wires in the South Pacific during World War II.

Ratner family passage to America
  • July 1890 -

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 physics experiment that went wrong
  • 1951 - 1958

How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?