Family Stories

Holocaust Survivor Speaks, So We Never Forget

I opened Randy Seaver’s blog, Genea-Musings, this morning and read his post from yesterday about a presentation given by Ruth Goldschiedover Sax and her daughter Sandra Sax Scheller at the Chula Vista Genealogical Society last Saturday (Jul 29, 2017). Sandra has written a book about Ruth’s life story with the title Try to Remember–Never Forget.

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A Second Grader’s Heritage Project

Holiday gatherings are an opportunity for families to talk about relatives and ancestors. Sometimes children are interested and sometimes not so much. On this 2012 Thanksgiving, I had a wonderful sharing experience. Just before my wife and I left to drive to Rochester, NY, for our Thanksgiving get-together, my daughter called and said that our

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