Henry Pike’s 1852 Douay Bible

Scans of Henry Pike’s family bible, courtesy of Sid Ohlhausen, showing births, baptisms, deaths and marriages of Bowie-Pikes from the late 1700s on.

Shoah: Family members murdered by the Nazis 1939-1945

Shoah: Family members murdered by the Nazis 1939-1945

While very little is know about any of these murders, most of the Jews from what is now southeastern Poland were rounded up and  taken to Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp between 1941 [...]

Przemysl Memorial Stone

Donated by the Semmel Family, In Memory of the Silberman and Metzger Families

Eulogy for Doug A. Battin

My father was a great man. Not so much for any one thing he did but for the sum of what he did, and the gifts he gave us. He died leaving behind a wife, a sister and a brother whom he adored, his three children and our spouses and six grandchildren.