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
Ed officiates at a movie wedding
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
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
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.