He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

When it is cold outside, the president and his family can warm up near one of the White House's twenty-eight fireplaces.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

When the Russian Revolution began in nineteen seventeen, the Rosenbaum family fled to the Russian state of Crimea.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

said the gray-haired woman. "You see,I was nurse to the boy when it happened,and for years afterward I worked in the family.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

His grandfather owned it. When the grandfather decided to sell the railroad, William's father moved his family to the city of Oxford.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Mrs.Shriver officially became involved in helping people with developmental problems when she became the executive vice-president of a family organization in nineteen fifty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has restored the building so it looks as it did when Lincoln and his family lived there.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

When Missus Waymon said the family did not have the money, her employer said she would pay for the girl's first year of lessons.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

His family experienced the terrible reality of hatred and discrimination when he was a young boy.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The family was living in Chicago,Illinois when Amelia completed high school in nineteen sixteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

His parents were actors.He was a baby when his father left the family.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

The boy's mother left the family when he was seven years old.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

When Margaret was very young, the family moved to New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Diatta says silence to preserve the family's honor often is a family's first reaction when a girl is raped.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The church pastor, Monsignor Etuale Lealofi, was visiting a family when they learned that their grandmother was a victim of the tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

"When you see people care about your child's life, it's been tremendous for the family and for Andrea."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

With bright eyes and an engaging smile, he says songs and stories were vital to survival when his family lived in igloos above the Arctic Circle.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

She wonders what else they can do. For now,the Mahmoud family and others have no choice but to keep containers ready for the days when water does flow through the taps.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

"We are working to establish a network and a system of protection of children and also to try to report cases of abuse and exploitation and try to save these children, put them in transit centers, try to recontact the family, and put them back with the family or with the extend family when the parents are not there or are not suitable to take care of the children,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.24