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How the Yorkers Immigrated to Philadelphia
Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.
April 15, 1858 – 1950
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Everything I Know About Hyman Victor
A repository for information about the life of my late great grandfather Hyman Victor, a Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1913.
1883 – 1960
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Goodbye Moscow, hello San Diego
How I left a country that no longer exists and learned to love sunny weather
1980 – 1992
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Joseph and Sadie Fagan (Part 1)
Part 1: Joseph Fagan's journey from Minsk to New York City
1896 – 1935
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Rezekne to Rostov to Albany
The Tulbowitz/Ratner family originated in the Vitebsk region, lived for decades near Rostov-on-Don, and finally settled in Albany, New York.
1818 – 12 AUG 2002
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Fallacy and family lore—in search of the Kovno Rav
That story about our Rabinowitz family's tie to a famous rabbi is tenuous at best. Here is the true genealogy of Yitchak Elchanon Spektor.
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Tulbowitz in the USSR — an alternative history
If Sholom Tulbowitz had gone to Dvinsk instead of Rostov, his Ratner descendants might have grown up in Perm instead of Albany.
1880 – 1950
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