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Episode 1: Schwartz to Sarkozi: “Volunteering” to Take a Hungarian Name

My father-in-law, Laci (pronounced: Lut-zee), has self-published a book for his grandchildren that described what he called “episodes” about his life. On the front cover is this picture you see here of a 1912 postcard of his grandfather's…

Regret You Didn’t Ask? 3 Steps to Finding Family Lore You’ve Lost

My adult son wants to know more about Papa Maxi, his great-grandfather (on my husband’s side) for which he is named. I rush to share what I know and notice I’m stumbling over my incomplete sentences. I tell him Papa Maxi was a boxer on the…