My Heritage

My grandma and I discuss our heritage and our opinions about DNA testing.

Kaia interviews her grandmother, Alice, about her life experiences

In this interview, recorded on November 27th, 2015, Kaia Neal (13) interviews her grandmother, Alice Kurtz (69) about her childhood growing up in New York. She talks about growing up during the Cold War and the Cuban Missle Crisis. Plus...

Dylan Caine (16) Asks His Mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), About Her Detroit Youth, Jewish Ancestry, and Worldview

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

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Abraham Goldbaum, Daniel Stock, and Ruth Goldbaum

Abraham Goldbaum talks to his grandson, Daniel Stock, and daughter, Ruth Goldbaum, about his love of music, life as an activist and traveling with his wife, Etta. Now at 100 years of age, he continues to sing in the rock...

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Alexandra Stinchfield, Anastasia Stinchfield, and Angela Caruso

Angela Caruso (38) interviews her daughters Anastasia Stinchfield (24) and Alexandra Stinchfield (25) about their earliest memories of growing up in Russia, their lives in a Russian orphanage, and what it was like for them to arrive in the U.S....