The sweep of family history across the generations
In July 2003, Stan and Helga came to the East Bay for a golden summer outing.
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
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Ed loved crosswords, so Dan Ruby created a tribute puzzle for his memorial. Kate and Twyla were the clue crew.
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of Minneapolis, including in the church rectory
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
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
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
Outlooks of a pre-millennial
Cherry picking the best content from our founding document written in 2006: "The Ruby Family Histories — The Early Lives of Stanley and Helga Ruby"