The Past, Still Present
Fran DavisGenealogy as psychological archaeology: stories of silence, survival, and what families carry forward.
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How I’m Building a Visual Story World (Starting With My Dad)
Sometimes a single object can do what a whole timeline can’t. It makes a person feel present — the way a wedding photograph did in Sixteen: The Girl in the Frame, and the way a Bible did in What She Gave Him.
I’m building a visual “story t...
Two Grandmothers, Two Kitchens
New here? This piece opens the Anne series — but Anne's story grows out of another one. For the past several months I've been writing The Frances Series, about my other grandmother, Frances Nevitsky Kaplan — the woman the world kept subtrac...
Stay in the Sun
My father died in 2020, and what I felt afterward wasn’t a clean, straightforward grief. Our relationship had always been complex, and I knew — even before I had language for it — that the shape of his childhood had followed him into adulth...
We don’t eat by neighborhood. We eat by dish.
In 1819, when Stamford Raffles stepped onto an island at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, he found roughly a thousand people. Malays. A handful of Chinese traders. Members of the Orang Laut, the “sea people,” who had lived on and ar...
What She Gave Him
The Frances Series — This is final chapter of the life of Frances Kaplan (née Nevitsky), my grandmother — the woman I never got to meet. If you’re just finding her story:
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A Family Erased
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Relocated: Frances Nevitsky and the Geogr...
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Real family stories pulled from real records. I write about loss, discovery, and the compassion that comes from looking back at the people who made you.
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