October 25, 2014: This is the day I’d waited for, for many years. Confirming & making contact… Cassandra Rachelle MacDougal was born in the winter of early 1988. Ours is an unusual story, one where the details get a little fuzzy because they go back so far. But one thing’s clear; the day we finally […]
Bayville & Oyster Bay, NY
September 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Hey everyone, this is Roy Juers II here… welcome to my humble site… For those who don’t know, I was born & raised in Bayville, NY. I lived there only until I was 9, but I’ve always considered it my hometown, and I love it dearly. Our street, Wanser Avenue, was a narrow little single-lane […]
Bronx Maternity & Woman’s Hospital
August 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Located at the corner of the Grand Concourse & 166th Street in the Bronx, this hospital is where my uncle Bob, Robert Louis Juers, was born on August 19, 1946. I was searching for it to get the actual address so I could map it out, and I found an interesting email exchange about the […]
Happy 83rd Birthday, Harry Juers
March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
My uncle, Harry Walter Juers, would have been 83 a week ago, on March 5th. Harry was an amazing man, & his oldest son, Michael, posted something poignant on his Facebook page that I wanted to share… sorry Michael, I had to do it! I paraphrased where necessary, but Michael has such a deeper perspective […]
The Moore Building, Oyster Bay NY
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the mid 20th century, after Harry Paul Juers died, his wife Helen McGinley left the Bronx with her 6 boys, and headed east to Oyster Bay, NY, where they lived at 5 East Main Street, at the intersection of South Street & Shore Avenue. I found a neat little narrated video about the building […]
So… are we related, or aren’t we? THAT is the Question…
December 19, 2012 by 2 Comments
Curious, isn’t it? You’ve looked around, saw some cool stuff. Thinking maybe you’re connected somehow, but not sure? I know the feeling. I’ve been finding the Juers name all over the internet, as far away as Australia, and have been asking myself, are they a branch of our Juers family from Germany, who went there […]
Census & Immigration Records
December 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Greetings, Juers family & friends! This is my first attempt to add some actual content to the site, so I’ll keep it simple by posting a bunch of links. What you’ll see here are historical documents (some of them official) or other interesting items found thru various family & genealogy sites. When you click on the various […]
Miracle of the Medals Part 2
November 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It all began 16 years ago, in the summer of ’94. Military medals, belonging to my godfather & uncle, Roy Juers of Oyster Bay, had been missing from the family for the better part of 15 years. Then out of nowhere, they miraculously reappeared, through an altruistic gesture by James Knight, an Oyster Bay sanitation […]
Miracle of the Medals
November 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
So both sides of my family are from Nassau County, Long Island. And I’m named after my uncle Roy J. Juers, second-youngest of my father’s 5 brothers. That’s why I’m Roy J. Juers II, not Roy Jr. Uncle Roy was my godfather (my mom’s sister, my Aunt Barbara is my godmother… she factors in later). […]
About the Images You’ll See Here…
October 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
God Bless our Uncle Harry. Harry was the self-proclaimed genealogist of the family. He did an amazing amount of research, and knew so much about the family, that I am in a constant state of regret that I did not make a more determined effort to visit with him more often, to learn about the […]
