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THE SUMMER I turned 18,
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gift : a binder containing her
family tree.

Th e tree, along with the
autobiography and biographies
she wrote to accompany it,
stretched back to her four sets
of great-grandparents, who had
all immigrated to New York
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Europe in the 19th century.

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delivered the presentation about
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for people looking to learn more
about their family history.

Aft er the presentation, I
decided to see if I could apply
what I learned to trace my own
Jewish immigrant relatives
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