I was always interested in genealogy as well as several other members of my family. We have traced my father's side back to the mid 1600s in England and actually made a hard cover book and had it printed for all our family that we were in contact with at the time. It was so fascinating to trace their journey over to New England and their settling of the colonies, etc.
My mother's side is a different story though. We have only been able to trace her family back to her grandparents, who were German Jews. Both of her grandfathers and 1 grandmother were orphaned during the Holocaust (which we already knew, since her parents made it out and came to the US as very young adults). Unfortunately we've never been able to recover birth/death/marriage records due to records being burned or destroyed in one way or another. We've done extensive research to no avail.
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