Roots & Rabbit Holes

Week 35 of 2025's 52 Ancestor's Challenge is "Off to Work." My husband's grandfather began working when he was still a child. Naum...

Week 28 of 2025’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge focuses on travel.  As Abram and Sura prove, you don’t need to travel far to have...

Week 35 of 2024’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is “All Mixed Up.” Alex’s great-grandfather, Leyba, was hauled in by the police...

The theme for Week 8 of 2024’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is “Heirlooms.”  It’s probably a silly, sentimental notion on my part,...

“Adversity” is the theme for Week 38 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Like many Jews in Eastern Europe, my husband’s...

The topic for Week 34 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is “Newest Discovery.” My newest discovery was made two weeks ago, when...

Week 22’s theme of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is At the Cemetery. Between at least one person in the house being sick for...

We’re now on Week 17 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge, and the topic is DNA. My mostly WASPy (WASPish?) genealogy is relatively...

The topic for week 10 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is Translation, and there is a mountain of pictures, documents, and...

The theme for Week 7 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is Outcast. My husband, who is ethnically a Jew, said I should write...