Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Wedding Wednesday
Lucy Wynona McLaughlin married Daniel Edmund Caldwell on May 10, 1958 in Santa Monica, California at Saint Monica's Catholic Church. Lucy was the half-sister of my ex and therefore the aunt of my stepsons. While I still lived in Oakland, California, I learned through a probate file that she was living near me, so one day I bravely drove to her address and cold called in person. I was fortunate that she was home and willing to talk with me. I ended up visiting for four hours. She allowed me to take home her wedding album and scan all the photos. She was a stunningly beautiful bride. She called me her "not quite sister-in-law." I'm so happy I was able to meet her, and that her nephew David met her and her younger son. I miss her a lot.
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| Lucy and father Karm Singh |
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| Daniel Caldwell (right), probably with the best man |
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| Lucy and Karm |
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| Daniel and Lucy in the center, with flower girl Carol to the right |
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| Saint Monica's Catholic Church |
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| Lucy and Daniel during the recessional |
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| Lucy and Daniel |
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| Lucy and Daniel |
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| Lucy and Daniel on the church steps |
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| Daniel and Lucy |
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| Daniel and Lucy |
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| Daniel and Lucy with flower girl Carol |
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| Daniel and Lucy |
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| Daniel and Lucy |
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| Lucy, Daniel, flower girl Carol, and Lucy's mother's family (I think) |
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| Edmund, John, Lucy, Carol, ?, Hugh |
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| Lucy, Daniel, flower girl Carol, and Daniel's family (I think) |
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| Back row: Karm, Mary, Lucy, Daniel; front row: Hugh, Ed, John, Carol |
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Remembering Lost Family Members on Yom HaShoah
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| Yechail Golubchik |
The following is the list of my known family members who died in the Holocaust. They are all from the Mekler/Nowicki side of my family and lived in Grodno gubernia, Russian Empire (now in Belarus). May their memory be for a blessing.
Beile Dubiner
Eliezer Dubiner
Herschel Dubiner
Moishe Dubiner
Sore (Mekler) Dubiner
Aidel Goldsztern
Golda Goldsztern
Josef Goldsztern
Pearl (Gorfinkel) Goldsztern
Tzvi Goldsztern
Esther Golubchik
Fagel Golubchik
Lazar Golubchik
Peshe (Mekler) Golubchik
Pinchus Golubchik
Yechail Golubchik
Mirka (Nowicki) Krimelewicz
— Krimelewicz
Beile Szocherman
Chanania Szocherman
Maishe Elie Szocherman
Perel Szocherman
Raizl (Perlmutter) Szocherman
Zlate Szocherman
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