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Current Stories
FROM KREUZBURG TO HOLLYWOOD:
Finding Walter Wicclair
“I didn’t learn that my family was Jewish until I was 51 years old. That secret was sustained while I was growing up as an only child, knowing only my parents, and with little knowledge about any relatives living or dead.”
A HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY:
Searching the Past, Finding the Future
“It was probably a typical story of the day when an older brother, trying to protect the younger one from conscription to the army, switches identity with him, sends him off to America, eventually gets drafted to the Russian Czarist Army, and goes to World War I in his place.”
THE FAMILY FROM SLAVUTA:
Finding Sam Bloom
“When I teach an introduction to Jewish genealogy, I always tell students that their very first step should be to check the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) to see if anyone else is researching their names and towns … I’ve had my share of successes with this route.”
UPDATE - THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION:
Reuniting the Maniches Family
“The last time descendants of these families had all been together for a meal, attending synagogue together, and just spending time together would have been in 1914, the year my grandmother left Krynki, Poland.”
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