family stories Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/family-stories/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:23:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png family stories Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/family-stories/ 32 32 Public Archive Spotlight: The Cohen-Snyder Family Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:12:56 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5990 In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Micheal Cohen came to America. He established himself in New York City and soon sent for his wife, Freida, to bring her from Minsk to Manhattan. Together they would have eight children. Micheal was Jewish and spoke Yiddish as his first language. He was conscripted into the Russian Army, but felt he had “little desire to serve a country that segregated and discriminated against his faith.” Deciding then to leave Russia for America, he sought work in the fashion industry, eventually finding success alongside several of his sons. One of Micheal and Freida’s daughters, Rose, would marry shoe merchant Morris Snyder —also a child of Jewish immigrants from ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/feed/ 0 Public Archive Spotlight: The Chas. E Martin Archive  https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-chas-e-martin-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-chas-e-martin-archive/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:48:59 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5875 In a world that moves at breakneck speed, it’s easy to lose touch with our roots, the stories that bind us, and the people who shaped our lineage. The holiday season is the perfect time to gather your friends and family together to celebrate the traditions from the past that you’ve carried into the future. Public archives on Permanent make it easy to stay tethered to your family’s rich history, both past and present. This season, we’d like to shine a spotlight on the Chas. E. Martin Archive which acts as a hub for Chas.’s family to access photos of cherished faces and moments from the past. An Enduring Family Story “Family is everything. People ...

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