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
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Helga expressed a commitment to liberal values in her lifelong work for the League of Women Voters.
Insider dealings in the French jewelry trade. Swank cocktail parties for the Nazi elite. A rough-cut Jewish jeweler and his ebullient new wife. Where Henry Kissinger met Le Duc Tho.
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
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?
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Social reformer Nathan Meeker was among nine men killed in an uprising of Ute Indians at the White River reservation where he was serving as U.S. agent. His wife and daughter—Smith family descendants—were held hostage for three weeks
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.