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Archives
NEVER GIVE UP!: Finding Freida Halpern
ARTWORK AS WITNESS TO HISTORY: Destruction of a Drohobycz Family
FROM KREUZBURG TO HOLLYWOOD: Finding Walter Wicclair
A HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY: Searching the Past, Finding the Future
THE FAMILY FROM SLAVUTA: Finding Sam Bloom
UPDATE - THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION: Reuniting the Maniches Family
THE MANCHURIAN CONNECTION: Discovering My Borkovsky Ancestors In Hailar, China
THE KIELCE GHETTO MEMOIR: A Fragment of My Mother’s Life
THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION: Reuniting the Maniches Family
THE EPSTEINS OF BOBROISK: A New Branch on the Family Tree
IN ISRAEL: Following in the Footsteps of Jüte Horn and Chaim Teichman
THE LORIG FAMILY: A Mystery Photo Leads to an Amazing Discovery
THE WERTHEIMER FAMILY OF GEMMINGEN: Connecting With My Cousin via JewishGen
FROM SKIERNIEWICE TO VERMONT: An Artist in the Family
FROM ROHATYN TO PALESTINE: Following the Aliyah Road of Jüte Horn and Chaim Teichman
THE HUMMEL FAMILY OF TALSI: Cousins Connect From Around the World
FROM WARADY TO WEINBERGER: How JewishGen's Genealogy Class Helped Me Make the Connection
THE RASCHINSKY DIAMOND: Restoring a Family’s Name
MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS' MEZUZAH
THE BLECHER BOYS OF BESSARABIA BECOME BARBERS: From Soroki to Chicago 1909-1914
A BLISSFUL REUNION: Finding a New Branch of My Blistein Family
PIECES OF A PUZZLE: Connecting the Links in a Worldwide Family
ROMANCE IN F-MAJOR: Searching for Rózsi
I WENT TO LOOK FOR LUNNA DESCENDANTS AND FOUND MY OWN THIRD COUSINS
THE BRANTZ FAMILY: Together in Romania, Separated by Emigration, Reconnected through JewishGen
LETTERS IN A PHOTO ALBUM: Searching for My Mother’s Rabinowitz and Pinsley Cousins
FINDING SARAH'S SIBLINGS: How Probate Records Helped My Search
THE CHERNOFF SAGA: Stitching Together the Fabric of a Family
THE FINAL JOURNEY OF JACOB DRAPEKIN: Confirming a Myth with a Missing Matzevah
TRACES: What Remains of a Life
THE HAUSNERS OF KOJETIN: Success Story Brings New Family Connections
TOGETHER AGAIN:
Reuniting the Rapoports of KholmichRECONNECTING WITH KISHINEV:
Pages of Testimony Link Living Cousins
GRANDFATHER BORIS AND TAPESTRIES OF RYAZAN:
Discovering Boris Bobroff in Ryazan and RacineTHE HAUSNERS OF KOJETIN:
A Trip to My Ancestral Home in Moravia
MONIEK AND MOSHE: Holocaust Survivors Reunited After 67 Years
A SYNAGOGUE IN EHRSTADT: Finding My Cahn Family Roots
CLUES FROM A PHOTO ALBUM: Cousins Reunited after 100 Years
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: Finding my Turmann Family
HEARD ON THE LISTS: Invaluable help from JewishGenners in Israel
MY PERSKY COUSINS: A Drive to Reconnect
WHO'S GULAN? Solving a family mystery
FROM A SHTETL CALLED MICHALISHUCK: Finding my Palestin Family
SEARCHING FOR JULEK SCZCUPAK: Photos Reunited With Family
“After my bubbe passed away, I found two photos of a baby in a shoe box. On the back was the unfamiliar name Julek Szczupak. I wanted to return the photos to his family, so I emailed several people who were listed in JewishGen’s Family Finder, asking if they knew such a person.”FROM VIENNA AND BRODY TO BUENOS AIRES: Old Letters Reconnect a Family
“Leda showed me some carefully saved letters. The letters, written in German in 1938 and 1939, contained desperate pleas from Vienna asking Leda’s grandfather to obtain permission to allow them to immigrate to Argentina with their son Bruno.”MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 1: Who Was Sally Rehfisch?
“I found a few old letters of hers that she'd kept in a box in a hall closet. Since they were hand written in German, I couldn't read them. So I filed them away. But then I discovered that she'd also left me half a dozen family photo albums. That's when I really got the urge to find out more about my family.”MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 2: Margot and Fiep
“What made it so dramatic was that I didn't find her name in some musty public record, but in the subtext of a headline that turned up in a Google search, while looking for anyone named Rehfisch.”
