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‘Finding Ourselves’ Through Genealogy

Tom Tugend February 6, 2003

\”In this fast-food, fast-fame world, we are like single blades of grass,\” says Dr. Maya Angelou, the poet, author and historian.

Web Helps Jews Trace Genes

Bill Gladstone July 25, 2002

Seven years ago, Montreal businessman Stan Diamond arranged to index the Jewish records of his ancestral town of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland, because he wanted to trace the path of a rare genetic condition within his family tree.

New Route for Roots

Michael J. Jordan May 3, 2001

It\’s virtually \”genealogy for dummies.\”

In a nation of immigrants where more than 35 percent of the population — or 100 million Americans — have at least one relative who passed through Ellis Island, officials at that historic entry point to New York have unveiled a new Web site that will enable even the least tech-savvy to mine a mother lode of information on their families\’ roots.

Connecting the Dots

Ruth E. Gruber December 23, 1999

A name and date in a yellowing ledger. An inscription on a crumbling tombstone. A birth certificate. A walk along a dusty street in an Eastern European village. A faded family photograph. Sometimes a newly discovered relative.