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Author: Richard Baum

A Lost Grandfather: Rediscovering Samuel B. Gluckman

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 Richard Baum Current Stories, June 2025

When my father, Irwin, was two years old, his 32-year-old father, Samuel, passed away from medical complications shortly after surgery. This biological father became a forgotten figure in our family’s history.

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Logistics of the 1911 Emigration of a Jewish Family from Eastern Ukraine to the Port of New York

October 27, 2024June 29, 2025 Richard Baum October 2024

As a descendant of ancestors who crossed the Atlantic by ship from Europe to North America, I have been interested in how this was managed, as I assumed that my ancestors lacked sufficient income to accomplish this odyssey.

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Finding the Remnants of the Goldshtern Family

July 5, 2023June 29, 2025 Richard Baum June 2023

I began my genealogy journey with a short list of research priorities, “mysteries” to solve. One of them was to discover who from my family had survived World War II, and what had happened to those who had not survived.

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