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Explore the fascinating lives of real individuals in Iran, delving beyond news sound bites and internet clips. Through the contrasting stories of two men who grew up in different regions under Reza Khan's leadership, a deeper understanding of Iran emerges. In 1958, my father departed rural Shiraz for higher education in the United States during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign, never returning. Similarly, my father-in-law left Tehran amidst ...

Explore the fascinating lives of real individuals in Iran, delving beyond news sound bites and internet clips. Through the contrasting stories of two men who grew up in different regions under Reza Khan's leadership, a deeper understanding of Iran emerges. In 1958, my father departed rural Shiraz for higher education in the United States during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign, never returning. Similarly, my father-in-law left Tehran amidst ...

Are you interested in learning about the everyday lives of people who lived through the American Revolution, Civil War, Westward Expansion, World War II, and the modern era? Using letters, diaries, wills, and other primary documentation shared by my grandmother and her grandmother, this is a collection of family stories that span from 1700 to 1998 with the surnames of: Stone, Hankins, Campbell, Ford, and Simpson. Their stories invite you to vi...

Are you interested in learning about the everyday lives of people who lived through the American Revolution, Civil War, Westward Expansion, World War II, and the modern era? Using letters, diaries, wills, and other primary documentation shared by my grandmother and her grandmother, this is a collection of family stories that span from 1700 to 1998 with the surnames of: Stone, Hankins, Campbell, Ford, and Simpson. Their stories invite you to vi...

What comes to mind when you hear the word "Iran"? Hostages? Women in black? ?Not Without My Daughter?? As you will discover in this personal account, the people of Iran are surprisingly warm, hospitable, and deeply committed to family. This book is about the adventure of a half-Persian (Iranian) woman who was born in the United States and travels to Iran for the first time at the age of 30 to attend a cousin?s wedding. Against the historical b...

Through reviewing documents held for over a century in St. Petersburg Russia, DNA tests, the Facebook Lithuanian Genealogical Society, various genealogy websites and traveling to Lithuania, I have unraveled stories of my noble Lutkiewicz and Dowgwillo ancestors who were born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, once the largest country in Europe. Over the centuries my ancestors lived through Czarist Russian occupation, Napoleon's invasion, uprisin...

Through reviewing documents held for over a century in St. Petersburg Russia, DNA tests, the Facebook Lithuanian Genealogical Society, various genealogy websites and traveling to Lithuania, I have unraveled stories of my noble Lutkiewicz and Dowgwillo ancestors who were born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, once the largest country in Europe. Over the centuries my ancestors lived through Czarist Russian occupation, Napoleon's invasion, uprisin...

What comes to mind when you think of the word great grandma? Homemade treats? Someone that spoils you? As you will discover in this personal account, great grandma can mean all those things and moretough, hardworking, faithful, and highly protective. This book is about a great grandmothers lifefrom her birth in remote Vaznikiai Village in Lithuania in 1891 to traveling to Baltimore under an assumed name in 1912, to marrying another immigrant f...

What comes to mind when you think of the word great grandma? Homemade treats? Someone that spoils you? As you will discover in this personal account, great grandma can mean all those things and moretough, hardworking, faithful, and highly protective. This book is about a great grandmothers lifefrom her birth in remote Vaznikiai Village in Lithuania in 1891 to traveling to Baltimore under an assumed name in 1912, to marrying another immigrant f...