Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.
Not many people can say they got started at 12, but I did! Here's the full story.
Your Pop-pop and I want you to know about our parents, for whom you were named.
Remiro Spicer recovered from injury and months at the infamous Andersonville prison to raise a family in Upstate New York
Some of our best family heirlooms are the things Grammy kept from her wedding.
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
Our first encounter with Rabbi Huebsch moved us to tears, but is he even related to our (great-)grandfather Bernhardt?
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
Home from the war, Stan Ruby is a graduate student at Columbia. His bride, Helga Ringel, is a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin.
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
Lee Harvey Oswald-killer Jack Ruby was not related to our family. He tarnished our name in the history books.