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February 2016

NEVER GIVE UP!: Finding Freida Halpern

ARTWORK AS WITNESS TO HISTORY: Destruction of a Drohobycz Family

THE GOLDSTEIN CHRONICLES - IMMIGRATION TO CANADA BY ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL: The Documents That Saved My Family

May 2015

FROM KREUZBURG TO HOLLYWOOD: Finding Walter Wicclair

A HUNDRED YEAR JOURNEY: Searching the Past, Finding the Future

THE FAMILY FROM SLAVUTA: Finding Sam Bloom

UPDATE - THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION: Reuniting the Maniches Family

January 2015

THE MANCHURIAN CONNECTION: Discovering My Borkovsky Ancestors In Hailar, China

THE KIELCE GHETTO MEMOIR: A Fragment of My Mother’s Life

THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION: Reuniting the Maniches Family

August 2014

THE EPSTEINS OF BOBROISK: A New Branch on the Family Tree

IN ISRAEL: Following in the Footsteps of Jüte Horn and Chaim Teichman

THE LORIG FAMILY: A Mystery Photo Leads to an Amazing Discovery

THE WERTHEIMER FAMILY OF GEMMINGEN: Connecting With My Cousin via JewishGen

March 2014

FROM SKIERNIEWICE TO VERMONT: An Artist in the Family

FROM ROHATYN TO PALESTINE: Following the Aliyah Road of Jüte Horn and Chaim Teichman

THE HUMMEL FAMILY OF TALSI: Cousins Connect From Around the World

August 2013

FROM WARADY TO WEINBERGER: How JewishGen's Genealogy Class Helped Me Make the Connection

THE RASCHINSKY DIAMOND: Restoring a Family’s Name

WALKING MY LINEAGE: A Roots Tour to Lithuania and Poland

BRONIA & LOTTE - 1920s BEST OF FRIENDS: 85 Years Later, a Niece and a Great-Grandniece Rediscover That Friendship

May 2013

MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS' MEZUZAH

THE BLECHER BOYS OF BESSARABIA BECOME BARBERS: From Soroki to Chicago 1909-1914

A BLISSFUL REUNION: Finding a New Branch of My Blistein Family

PIECES OF A PUZZLE: Connecting the Links in a Worldwide Family

January 2013

ROMANCE IN F-MAJOR: Searching for Rózsi

I WENT TO LOOK FOR LUNNA DESCENDANTS AND FOUND MY OWN THIRD COUSINS

FINDING MY GRANDFATHER DAVID RAUCHER

JACOB APTEKMAN: Warrior of Zion

October 2012

THE BRANTZ FAMILY: Together in Romania, Separated by Emigration, Reconnected through JewishGen

FINDING UNCLE AARON

LETTERS IN A PHOTO ALBUM: Searching for My Mother’s Rabinowitz and Pinsley Cousins

BROWNSTEIN, SARFAS, and FABER:
A twisted genealogical knot of inter-generational first-cousin marriages

June 2012

FINDING SARAH'S SIBLINGS: How Probate Records Helped My Search

THE CHERNOFF SAGA: Stitching Together the Fabric of a Family

About Cholent, Cholesterol and an Unknown Father

March 2012

THE FINAL JOURNEY OF JACOB DRAPEKIN: Confirming a Myth with a Missing Matzevah

TRACES: What Remains of a Life

THE HAUSNERS OF KOJETIN: Success Story Brings New Family Connections

July 2011

TOGETHER AGAIN:
Reuniting the Rapoports of Kholmich

RECONNECTING WITH KISHINEV:
Pages of Testimony Link Living Cousins

January 2011

GRANDFATHER BORIS AND TAPESTRIES OF RYAZAN:
Discovering Boris Bobroff in Ryazan and Racine

THE HAUSNERS OF KOJETIN:
A Trip to My Ancestral Home in Moravia

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July 2010

MONIEK AND MOSHE: Holocaust Survivors Reunited After 67 Years

THE ISAACS CONNECTION: Finding My Jewish Roots

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May 2010

A SYNAGOGUE IN EHRSTADT: Finding My Cahn Family Roots

CLUES FROM A PHOTO ALBUM: Cousins Reunited after 100 Years

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: Finding my Turmann Family

HEARD ON THE LISTS: Invaluable help from JewishGenners in Israel

September 2009

MY PERSKY COUSINS: A Drive to Reconnect

WHO'S GULAN? Solving a family mystery

FROM A SHTETL CALLED MICHALISHUCK: Finding my Palestin Family

HEARD ON THE LISTS: Help for a young genealogist

Before 2009

THE TAUB STORY: Families reunited after 62 years

Current Stories

SEARCHING FOR JULEK SCZCUPAK: Photos Reunited With Family

“After my bubbe passed away, I found two photos of a baby in a shoe box. On the back was the unfamiliar name Julek Szczupak. I wanted to return the photos to his family, so I emailed several people who were listed in JewishGen’s Family Finder, asking if they knew such a person.”

FROM VIENNA AND BRODY TO BUENOS AIRES: Old Letters Reconnect a Family

“Leda showed me some carefully saved letters. The letters, written in German in 1938 and 1939, contained desperate pleas from Vienna asking Leda’s grandfather to obtain permission to allow them to immigrate to Argentina with their son Bruno.”

MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 1: Who Was Sally Rehfisch?

“I found a few old letters of hers that she'd kept in a box in a hall closet. Since they were hand written in German, I couldn't read them. So I filed them away. But then I discovered that she'd also left me half a dozen family photo albums. That's when I really got the urge to find out more about my family.”

MY REHFISCH FAMILY – PART 2: Margot and Fiep

“What made it so dramatic was that I didn't find her name in some musty public record, but in the subtext of a headline that turned up in a Google search, while looking for anyone named Rehfisch.”

 


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