9/11 Living Memorial Plaza

Purple Heart recipient, son of 9/11 firefighter receives mortgage-free home

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Saturday, September 9, 2023
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Evan Marcy, a Purple Heart recipient and son of a FDNY firefighter.

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  • Evan Marcy, a Purple Heart recipient and son of a FDNY firefighter.
  • It is part of an annual cycling event that raises money for wounded veterans and honors FDNY personnel who died in 9/11.
  • Medically discharged in 2011, Marcy earned prestigious awards for his service, including the Purple Heart, Joint Service Commendation Medal and Army Commendation Medal.
  • The experience inspired Pujol to establish the organization, which gifts mortgage-free homes to injured veterans, their families and first responders.

MyHeritage Adds Millions of Jewish Historical Records in Collaboration with JewishGen

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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JewishGen is a leading website for Jewish genealogy, featuring important collections of historical records pertaining to Jewish communities across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and North America.

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  • JewishGen is a leading website for Jewish genealogy, featuring important collections of historical records pertaining to Jewish communities across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and North America.
  • The records in these collections will now benefit from MyHeritages powerful technologies, which automatically match historical records with the 83 million family trees on MyHeritage.
  • Our new collaboration with JewishGen is an important milestone that makes MyHeritage indispensable for every Jewish genealogist, said Gilad Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHeritage.
  • JewishGen is the key resource for Jewish genealogy and we are happy to bring its records to MyHeritage.