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Diaries are important primary source records for genealogists, historians, and family members alike.

Learn about the families, businesses, and synagogues that make up the Jewish history of Salem, Massachusetts through the lens of the archival collections at the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society.

In this remarkable memoir, Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.