Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

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

Helga expressed a commitment to liberal values in her lifelong work for the League of Women Voters.

In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.

Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences

Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge

Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way

Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.

Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.

Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans

Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?

In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere Lutheranism for a more ecumenical approach