Introduction

This book is full of love of history and family. There are eight contributors from many cities and countries whose stories reflect the social and political upheavals of the previous century.

Family Portraits and Generations

There are snapshot portraits painted of people going back sixteen generations. The first is David Mitzkun, circa 1580, from Lithuania. The family tree was translated from Hebrew by a genealogist who created a descendants report with most of the names and dates of these sixteen generations. The youngest is a toddler in the newest generation.

Historical Content and Media

There are photos from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries as well as historical documents. Included in the book is the story of recovery of the tree drawn by the authors' great-grandfather and family members who found one another as a result. This wonderful story has been televised as well as printed as a front page article of a New Jersey newspaper in 2014.