Recognizing Family
I often think of my life as a bit of a Rube Goldberg creation. I set something in motion, as if I were sending a marble spinning on its...
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Susan Weinberg
- May 10
- 2 min
A Puzzle in Ten Steps
When my father died, I was the first one to tackle his office. My father loved information. If something interested him, it ended up in a...
Susan Weinberg
- Apr 22
- 1 min
A Place of Perilous Danger and Hope
Over recent weeks, I’ve watched the unfolding events in Ukraine with horror. I traveled there in 2011 to the town that my maternal...
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- Mar 17
- 2 min
Honoring the Stories
As genealogists we uncover our family stories. An important part of this process is to retell and commemorate that history. A recent...
Susan Weinberg
- Feb 7
- 1 min
The DNA Rabbit Hole
One of the areas of genealogy that attracts many people is DNA. While I am deep down the rabbit hole of genealogy research, I hesitated...
Susan Weinberg
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
Galveston Gateway
Galveston Port 1912 This article was previously published in edited form in JHSUM Fall 2021 newsletter Between 1899 and 1914, 1.7 million...
Susan Weinberg
- Jul 11, 2021
- 1 min
The Fluidity of Names
On the changing nature of given names in an immigrant population I love solving puzzles. I often have a “spidey sense” about the answer...
Susan Weinberg
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
Tracing Their Journey
In our prior article we introduced you to the Industrial Removal Office that aided Jewish immigrants in traveling to the interior of the...
Susan Weinberg
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
Finding Their Way to Minnesota
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 my old home in...
Susan Weinberg
- Sep 18, 2020
- 1 min
Finding the Tendrils of History
I was first drawn into genealogy when the immigration records went on-line. There was something about imagining that journey that...
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- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Five Things To Do While Stuck at Home
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...
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- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
Exploring DNA Matches
Dan Kastrul’s recent presentation focused on concrete steps people could take to help make more sense of their DNA matches. He...
Susan Weinberg
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
We Were Them
by Susan Weinberg I’ve been doing talks around the country on immigration history, weaving in video clips from my interviews with Jewish...
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- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
The Whispering Past
by Susan Weinberg One of the things that intrigues me about genealogy are the little glimpses of history. There are so many things we...
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- Apr 5, 2019
- 1 min
Turning Folklore to Fact
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...
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- Feb 18, 2019
- 4 min
The Holocaust Before the Holocaust
by Jody Gorran 2019 marks the 100% anniversary of the forgotten 1919 pogroms in the Ukraine. This series of pogroms from 1917-1921 is...
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- Dec 8, 2018
- 1 min
In Search of Family
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...
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- Nov 12, 2018
- 2 min
The Roster Project: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
Do you have family members who may have fought in the Civil War? Recently I heard from the Shapell Manuscript Foundation about their...
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- Sep 7, 2018
- 1 min
My Days of Awe discovery: I have a half-sister
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...
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- May 9, 2018
- 2 min
Asking the Elders
This post is reproduced from the newsletter of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, written by Susan Weinberg - The...