That began my interest in my Family's History. Until then I had only known the family myths that were repeated yearly over the Passover table when the extended family gathered or during long car drives on family trips. Ever since I have been filling in the missing pieces of the family history which lead from eighteenth century Europe to New York City in the 1990s. I have found photographs, old letters, and made interviews with videocameras and over the phone to follow back the threads of my past.
Available below are just a few of the gems that can fit on this site and are appropriate. I think you might be interested and surprised with what you find. I hope you are inspired to learn more about you own family history. Without it we are nothing and would be nowhere, and when the older have died there will be none left to ask.
Tell me more about Your Family or take a peak in the Family Album when it becomes available.
In the mid-eighties my grandmother died. And when her Florida apartment was emptied we acquired a box of Letters she had saved, letters sent to her from her husband-to-be during his medical residency in Vienna in the late twenties. He was my grandfather and until then I had never met him; he had died before I was born. Reading his letters gave me a chance to know a man I should have known.
My Sister's Nursery School Evaluation'Nuff said.
How My Parent's MetMy mom tells the story of how she and my dad met and got married. A GREAT story!
My Father's Letter at 16 Years While Traveling AmericaThis is a small excerpt from a larger document collecting my father's dutiful daily letters home when he spent his summer driving post World War Two America coast to coast. You think he passed Keroac? Description of this letter: in which lumber factories are toured, beer is brewed, Pacific Beach hosts toasting marshmallows, Paul drives again, and clams are captured, cleaned, and cooked.
My Dad's Early Life HistoryThis is the first half of an oral interview with my father about his life growing up in Jersey City in the 1930s and 1940s.
Two of Ben's LettersThese are just two letters from a larger collection of letters found when my grandmother died written by her late husband. The first is a romantic anniversary card and the second was from Europe before they were married about his experiences.
Oral History Of My Mother's ParentsMeme and Poppop tell their life story growing up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the 1910s, 20s and 1930s, then how they met and married. And, of course, there's some arguing about the facts.
My Father's Father's FatherMy patriarchal lineage is discussed by my dad's cousins who lived in the same house and worked in the same business.
The Bernard Experience Meeting Bernard can be described as nothing less than an experience. When I discovered that my great-great-uncle was not only alive but lived around the corner from me, my father and I couldn't believe that he was actually in the book of Who's Who as he claimed.
But once we found it was true, what were we to think about his claims that he was crucified by the Nazi's, was friend's with Einstein, Anwar Sadat, and Bob Hope, and discovered the answer to the universe (He swears he won't tell us until he finishes writing his book).
The history of my father's mother's father's family in Europe across the Eighteenth Century.Written by my great-great-Uncle. Includes a description of the death of his father.
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