THE WIENER FAMILY HISTORY IN GERMANY FROM 1400 REVISION 2
A family genealogy takes on a life of its own, a continuously evolving science as new facts from new sources come to light and once...
WE ARE THE CHOSEN
We Are the Chosen by Della M. Cummings Wright (1943) We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the...
FINDING THE TRUTH AFTER A 40 YEAR SEARCH – UNCLE KURT’S EVIDENCE
FINDING THE TRUTH AFTER A 40 YEAR SEARCH – UNCLE KURT’S EVIDENCE In my blog of the 24th September 2016 I carefully explained how, after...
REUNITING OF FAMILY AFTER 80 YEARS OF SEPARATION CAUSED BY HOLOCAUST
This is a story of a family reuniting 80 years after a catastrophic event which tore them apart and is a lesson in persistence and never...
FINDING MY OLDEST ANCESTOR GRAVE
On my recent trip to Germany I visited the old historical Jewish cemetery in Hamburg which is situated not far from the Reeperbahn - in...
Aggressively and Strategically Breaking through the Brick Wall
THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED IN THE SEPTEMBER IGRA MAGAZINE The majority readers of this article are relatively well experienced genealogists...
The Jews in Berlin
I have just read an incredible book "The Jews in Berlin" by Andreas Nechama which relates the history of the Jews in Berlin from about...
Publishing This Book
I am happy to tell you that after having researched my family genealogy for some 40 years I now feel that the time is right to publish...
My trip to Germany in July 2016 - Amazing Finds
I have just returned home from a very interesting and fruitful trip to Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen and German where I found the graves of my...
Breaking Through The Brick Wall
One of the most basic mistakes we all make is not asking our parents about our ancestors – youth is obsessed mostly by the present, a...