On the changing nature of given names in an immigrant population I love solving puzzles. I often have a “spidey sense” about the answer...

By Susan Weinberg In our prior article we introduced you to the Industrial Removal Office that aided Jewish immigrants in traveling to...

By Susan Weinberg I write you per your request to let you know how I am doing. . . I like the city very much. It reminds me very much of...

by Susan Weinberg I was first drawn into genealogy when the immigration records went on-line. There was something about imagining that...

From the JewishGen newsletter: Most of us will be spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage you to use some...

Dan Kastrul’s recent presentation focused on concrete steps people could take to help make more sense of their DNA matches. He...

by Susan Weinberg I’ve been doing talks around the country on immigration history, weaving in video clips from my interviews with Jewish...

by Susan Weinberg One of the things that intrigues me about genealogy are the little glimpses of history. There are so many things we...

by Susan Weinberg “I often get thrown out of archives and museums at closing time,” I remarked. I was at the local Family History Library...

by Jody Gorran 2019 marks the 100% anniversary of the forgotten 1919 pogroms in the Ukraine. This series of pogroms from 1917-1921 is...

by Susan Weinberg I sometimes wish I had a bigger family. Now that is not because I am especially family-centered, but as a genealogist I...

Do you have family members who may have fought in the Civil War? Recently I heard from the Shapell Manuscript Foundation about their...

by Sally Abrams We told her a bit about ourselves, then moved to the thing Jean most wanted to know. What was he like, the man who had...

This post is reproduced from the newsletter of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, written by Susan Weinberg - The...

Many of us are affected by Ancestry.com discontinuing support of Family Tree Maker software. Read about Software MacKiev and RootsMagic,...

A recent story in the press explored a story of members Ruth and Walter Elias that arose out of a roots exploration.  It presents a...

By Frederick Hertz - My great-grandfather David Blumenfeld arrived as a 20-year-old tailor with his mother and siblings in 1884,...

This post is reproduced from Layers of the Onion at sgweinberg.blogspot.com courtesy of Susan Weinberg - You know I’m intrigued by a...

This post is reproduced from Layers of the Onion at sgweinberg.blogspot.com courtesy of Susan Weinberg - I just returned from the...

By Susan Weinberg - We recently met for our first Breaking Down Walls discussion. The purpose of this gathering was to look at some of...