Identifinders Blog

Big Business or Big Brother?
At the recent American Academy of Forensic Science meeting in New Orleans, I attended the workshop The Opiate Crisis, Dirty Bombs, Big Data/Big Problems, and Driverless Cars: On the

Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part XII – Taking Stock
As with all research projects, there have been so many zigzags in this story, it’s only reasonable to take a break to take stock of

Who Am I? What Is My Name? Part XI – Berlin, Warsaw, and the German Soldier
I recently traveled to Berlin and Warsaw to personally research in the various German and Polish archives. My hope was to find more information about

Who Am I – What Is My Name – Part X – Gertrude’s Marriage and Divorce
By now, everyone who reads this should know Gertrude Priess-Spiro, the woman who arranged to have Pnina Gutman smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto in August

Extreme Genealogy – Arrival in Berlin and First Visit to the Berlin Bundesarchiv
Flight to Berlin and ArrivalThursday, August 11, 2016 My trip from Los Angeles to Berlin went smoothly with a layover in Keflavik Interntional Airport. It is the

Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part IX – Gertrude’s Sisters!
Since 2012 we have been trying to discover the birth identity of Pnina Gutman, who as an infant was smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto with