Moldova
It’s here! The 2nd edition of my book, “Visiting Your Ancestral Town,” is now available with a special price of…
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I love road trips. There’s nothing that says summer to me more than the open road ahead of me and…
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Like toothpaste being squeezed from a tube, I slithered sideways through the jam-packed aisle of the Moldovan maxi-taxi, a common…
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I didn’t know which should concern me more—that I’d just gotten into a car with a strange man I’d found…
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My Schott ancestors left the town of Osthofen, Germany, about 1809, heading east toward a better life in Russia. I don’t…
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My touristing in Chisinau yesterday took me to a cemetery. That isn’t all that unusual since my interest in genealogy…
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I made a trip back in time to Soviet Russia yesterday. And I did it without leaving the country of…
Read MoreI think I was part of something important yesterday, but I’m really not sure. April 7, 2010 was the one-year…
Read MoreYou know, it actually makes me a little angry. Here’s a nation of 4.5 million people going about their daily…
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