HeyJaredThe Past, Still Present
Genealogy as psychological archaeology: stories of silence, survival, and what families carry forward.
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Listen Before You Ask Them to Speak (opens the original)
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One Household Inside Another (opens the original)
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Where Did I Put That? (opens the original)
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The Frances Series (opens the original)
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Frances Nevitsky Kaplan was my paternal grandmother, my namesake, and a woman I never had the chance to meet. To my father, she was an angel; to me, she was a collection of fragments I did not yet understand. Through records, photographs, and letters, this series follows my attempt to see beyond the family mythology and understand Frances as a whole person: a woman shaped by abandonment and instability, but also capable of love, agency, and survival. In learning to see her more clearly, I began
The Certificate and the Herring (opens the original)
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The Anne Series. This is part of an ongoing exploration of the life of Anne Gertrude Epstein (Mooney), my maternal grandmother, the keeper who held a crowded table together, and the people she loved but could not keep. If you’re just finding her story:Two Grandmothers, Two KitchensThe Fingerprint of Safety: An Introduction to Anne Epstein Mooney<a href="http
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