What Would You Take?
Kerry Scott at Clue Wagon asked, “What is the one thing you would grab if your house was on fire?” The question assumes that loved ones (I include pets here) are safe. My guess is that I would approach this …
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Where in the World is Sam Silver?
Sam Silver was my grandfather’s brother, my great-uncle. Unless he is the oldest man in the world, in which case he probably would have been in the newspapers and I would know where he is, he is long deceased by …
Stavropol, Vienna, New York? A Photographic Mystery
I have two pictures of my great-grandparents, Mendel and Lena Silverman with my grandfather and his brother dressed in Russian Cossack outfits. These are not two different pictures; they are the same picture pasted on different card stock from different …
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The Hundred Year Old Pony
Photography has been a vital element of family history since its earliest days. We cherish the oldest photographs taken when photography was an art practiced by a knowledgeable few. Now we live in an age where every moment of our …
I Finally Almost Won Something
Yesterday’s mail was way better than the usual junk. I received a certificate for taking second place in the under 1000 words section of the Southern California Genealogical Society‘s Family History Writing Contest. You can read that piece, Jersey Shore, …