Our Family's Journey Through Time
We welcome you to this family history with gratitude and wonder. This work began with a search for those relatives who, at the end of the nineteenth century, left Europe behind and sailed toward Chile in hope of a better life. They came from English, German, Croatian, Italian, and Spanish roots, carrying different languages, memories, customs, and dreams, yet sharing one brave decision: to begin again.
They departed in an age before instant messages, easy telephone calls, or quick returns. Letters crossed oceans slowly, and news from home could take months to arrive. Still, they stepped onto ships, trusting courage more than certainty. Perhaps they left because of hardship, limited work, political unrest, family duty, or simply the promise of land, dignity, and opportunity. Whatever the reason, their journey demanded strength.
In tracing their names, places, records, and graves, I have discovered more than dates. I have found resilience, sacrifice, longing, and faith. Their choices shaped the branches of our family tree. By remembering them, we honour their journey, and in their story, we find our own.
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My Jewish family immigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States escaping persecution. They sought freedom, safety, and opportunity, bringing faith, resilience, and traditions that continue to define our heritage.
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Unless stated otherwise, the information gathered on this genealogy website has been extracted from public websites, public records, historical archives, cemetery records, newspapers, immigration documents, family trees and other publicly available sources. No private or confidential information has been intentionally published. “Public information, by definition, is not private.” This site exists to preserve family history, remembrance and genealogical research, while honouring the lives and stories of those who came before us.
Its purpose is to document family connections, restore ancestral memory and share the journeys of families who moved across countries, survived hardship, or were lost through war and persecution. If any information appears incorrect, incomplete or in need of clarification, it may be updated as further records become available over time, and respectful corrections from relatives, descendants and fellow researchers are always welcome.
It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.
So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
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This family history is still a work in progress. Some lives are well documented through records, photographs, gravestones and personal memories, while others survive only through a name, a place, a date, or a story passed down through the generations. Genealogy is not only about certainty; it is also about careful reconstruction. Each document, correction and remembered detail helps bring my ancestors closer again, restoring dignity to lives that might otherwise have disappeared into silence.
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Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
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