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.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
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
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
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
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.