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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

I Know What My Great-Grandfather Read for Breakfast in 1913

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Context Is Everything — One Photograph, One Newspaper, One Sunday Morning in 1913 It is Pentecost Sunday. The eleventh of May, 1913. B...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

How to Find a Cousin (With Only Breadcrumbs and Sheer Stubbornness)

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I’ve got a problem only a genealogist could love: zero living male Maass cousins from Märkisch Friedland to run a Y-DNA test for me. So I...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

The German Forger: The Story of Berthold Bodenheimer in Australia

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The following expanded details in newspaper style writing are my first attempt at historical fiction based on true events and facts. I just ...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

Francis Wolff, Blue Note Jazz Photographer and Cousin

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Many years ago I tracked down a 2nd cousin of my Father's who is related via the WOLFF family of Berlin and Posen.  He had some amazing ...
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