The sweep of family history across the generations
Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine
When Hermann turned 21 in 1906, he presented documentation to secure legal German citizenship.
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Both Dan and Joanne applied for reclaimed citizenship under Article 116 of the German Constitution, but only Joanne’s application was approved
Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors
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
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.
Schija Ringel came from Poland to seek his fortune in Berlin’s old Jewish district.
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.