Month: April 2020

Explorations: family history, Genealogy: Methods and results

Poland-Palestine-America: A journey to U.S. citizenship

My relatives didn’t arrive in the U.S. during the period of mass immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe from 1880-1920, when over 20 million people, including two and a half million Eastern European Jews, arrived on these shores. As the doors of immigration to the U.S. began closing after 1920, my grandfather’s entire family–his parents, …