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Finding Her Ancestral Town: What are Friends For?

January 30, 2018May 31, 2019 successAdmin February 2018

”I was helping a friend … to identify her great-grandfather’s town of origin… The first thing I did was to go to the JewishGen Family Finder, where I promptly found three things: the correct name, the correct town, and a researcher who turned out to be her third cousin!”

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Seventy-Five Year Search Reunites a Family

September 28, 2017November 17, 2019 successAdmin Archive, September 2017

Time is running out for parents and children and brothers and sisters who were torn apart by the Holocaust to actually be reunited. This is the story of a little girl who was placed in an orphanage in Russia in 1941, the father who never stopped searching for her, and the cousins who reunited the family.

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Family Quest: Searching for my Biological Roots

September 27, 2017November 11, 2020 successAdmin September 2017

My parents never spoke about where I came from or the circumstances involving my adoption. They had no records pertaining to my birth parents… Then I read that the government in Toronto, Ontario, where I was born and raised, had opened up its adoption record archives allowing adoptees to request copies of original records.

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