When Laurie Gandel Samuels became a grandmother in 2020, she wanted to put together a family history for the two grandchildren.
âIt was supposed to be almost a little craft project, with pictures of their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents and like a page of information on each person for a child to look at, up until maybe theyâre 12 or something,â Samuels said.
She did not expect her grandchildrenâs first birthday present to turn into an in-depth research project that led to many late nights and reunions with family members she had no idea existed.
âI just got so interested in it that, as my kids said, I went down the rabbit hole,â she said.