Perspective
By Eleanor Kazdan, November 12, 2020 — When I start feeling sorry for myself about the sudden and gradual changes in my life due to the pandemic, I think of others who have had to endure much worse. My maternal … Continued
By Eleanor Kazdan, November 12, 2020 — When I start feeling sorry for myself about the sudden and gradual changes in my life due to the pandemic, I think of others who have had to endure much worse. My maternal … Continued
By Norman Cain, Philadelphia, PA, 02/04/2021 — For years, I have been actively researching my family history. I have relied on oral history that I heard from relatives in South Carolina and Philadelphia. I have also attained information from extended … Continued
By Norman Cain, December 3, 2020 — Each year beginning at my birth and lasting until I was 16 years old, I spent time at my maternal grandparents’ farm in South Carolina. I encountered extended stays during the summers after … Continued
By Frances Bryce, August 29, 2020 — The tree that we did not plant but the roots have been established long before we had a branch on it. I remember my great grandmother who lived in the south, far from … Continued
By Shu, November 27, 2019 — When I was a little kid, we would go to Pennsylvania and sit on my grandmother’s lap and I would have her knee and all. She would tell stories about the Wild West because … Continued
By Elliot Doomes, May 23, 2019 — I was thinking about tracing my genetic history and I’m not exactly sure how to do that or what the price would be to pursue that. I already know more than a lot … Continued
By Howard Steiner, October 10, 2019 — My mother came from Latvia, a Baltic country. She came to America on a boat with her mother, father, three brothers, and two sisters. They were on the bottom of the boat because they had … Continued