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
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
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
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.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
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
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
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?
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
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
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.