March 2026 Issue 1 Vol 40

MAR 07 1:00 PM SPEAKER CLAIRE GEBBEN April

Claire Gebben is a public speaker and educator specializing in family history, German genealogy, and 19th-century migration. She is the author of the award-winning novel The Last of the Blacksmiths , based on her ancestor’s journey from Germany to Cleveland, and her memoir How We Survive Here , which tracks her transatlantic quest to uncover 19th-century family letters. Her memoir was a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards . A Cleveland native of German and Scottish descent, Claire holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Her work has been featured in German Life magazine and Your Genealogy Today . An adventurer at heart, she enjoys hiking, bicycling, and the occasional session of blacksmithing. THE TALE OF TWO SCOTLANDS (Scots/Irish)

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