Jozef Israels was a Dutch painter from Groningen who during his lifetime was referred to as “the most respected Dutch artist of the...

Tobias Boas born November 3, 1696 in Den Haag, The Netherlands to my 7th great grandparents Haim Avraham Boas and Miryam Magnus. Haim...

Julius/Juda Tillinger was born in Stanislwow (now known as Ivano-Frankvisk, Ukraine) in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia on April...

For day 2 of 365 days of Family Tree I decided to go with my oldest known ancestor in the town of Ruhrort-Duisburg, Germany – One of my...

To start off my 365 days of Ancestors, In-Laws, Spaceballs, and Questionables I decided to go with a Spaceball. Frida Leider was a...

For anyone who follows I recently updated the Krochmal family history.

I have started working on various branches histories.  They are continual works in progress and there is no rhyme or reason as to which...

So Last May I was accepted into the University of Amsterdam and now I am trying to pay for it. If any one can and is willing to help then...

Apparently it has been a little less than a year since I last updated my blog.  I guess I should work on that. At the beginning of the...

Hello Readers – So I have two updates for all of you. 1. As far as my Galician genealogy goes I ordered 14 records which will hopefully...

To any readers I may have sorry I have not updated in a while.  I don’t really have much to say – since coming back from Europe I’ve...

Last year on Memorial Day I posted this on Facebook.  I am also posting it here. Last year (2009) I submitted this to the National Museum...

Today was our last day in Europe and we spent it walking around Prague.  We started off with a Hop-On/Hop-Off bus tour to learn the...

Today we went to Auschwitz.  The train ride there felt a little surreal because here we were two Jews voluntarily taking a train to the...

Today was our last day in Vienna.  We started off by heading over to the Prater park area to see and ride the famous Ferris wheel from...

Today we went to the Hapsburg’s other palace, Hofburg, which was the seat of government for Hapsburgs and is currently the official...

Today was “Jew Day” in the Vienna leg of our trip, though we did go to a church first.  The church we went to was St. Stephen’s...

Today we went to the City of Budapest, the capital of Hungary.  I am not a big fan of eastern European history and today I found I am not...

Today we spent the day with some cousins on the Tillinger side of my mother’s family.  This will be the fifth family group on my maternal...

Today my mother and I got to meet some cousins on my maternal grandfather’s side of  the family while in Vienna.  This was very exciting...