Getting them to the family stories
Well, we had the family here for Thanksgiving and a good time was had by all. And I noticed (as I do every time family comes to my house, but then I forget again) that the painting of my great …
Category: Miscellaneous
Thanksgiving-Turkey, Family, and Carving Knives —- Or Ask and Ask Again
Do you remember that opening paragraph? The one by Raymond Chandler that English professors are always quoting as an example of what an opening paragraph should be. The one that goes: “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It …
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How to tell an immigrant’s story?
I’ve been chipping away over time at putting together the story of my husband’s grandfather, Nathan Greenberg, and how he came to this country as a young man. The family has (don’t we all?) a story about it, but no …
Veterans Day, Who Went and Who Didn’t
Virtually every family in America has a veteran in the family tree, usually lots of veterans. My family is no exception, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, First World War, Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan; we’ve had relatives …
A Genealogist and Her Daughter Walk into a Nursing Home…
One pleasant day in mid-October my daughter and I went to visit my mother in her room at the Jewish Home for the Aged in New Haven. We had both been there many times before, but only occasionally together. As …
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