News: Interview with Family Historian Jay Silverberg
• Washington, D.C., December 16, 2020 • Shortly after Jay Silverberg began researching his family history ten years ago, he learned there was a collection of letters written to his immigrant relatives stored at a university library only seventy miles from the town where he grew up. This correspondence, the Meyer Brothers Collection, is now in the process of being added to the German Heritage in Letters project from the Meyer Brothers’ Store Records, part of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections held by Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, together with transcriptions and translations commissioned by Jay. We interviewed Jay to learn more about how he learned about the letters, his research into the stories they revealed, and his advice … Read More