Hubert John Rubenstein was born in Buffalo on May 3, 1927. His parents were Harry Jay Rubenstein (1890-1944) and Rose Maisel Rubenstein (1898-1965) and Hugh (also Huey) grew up on Richmond Avenue in Buffalo, NY surrounded by a network of extended Maisel and Rubenstein family members. Educated at the University of Wisconsin he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1947, delayed due to service in the US Navy from April 1945 to December 1946 serving as a Pharmacist Mate 3. He continued his schooling at the University of Buffalo, School of Medicine, gaining an MD in 1951. In 1954 he married Elayne Joan Spivak of New York. Hubert specialized as an OBGYN and had a successful practice in Sherman Oaks, California for over thirty years. He served as Chief of OBGYN at Valley Hospital Medical Center and was an adjunct professor at California State University Northridge. He was president of the Malibu Medical Society, practicing obstetrics and gynecology in Malibu from 1989. Hubert J. Rubenstein worked for six years compiling his family history, “Roots, Branches and Seedlings,” which traced the ancestral lines of the Urbansky, Rubenstein, Mauerberger, Mayerberg, Lande, Laundau, Maisel, Maizel, Beck, Prüwer and Priver families. He writes, “my interest in genealogy was piqued by two aunts; Della Rubenstein Adler, who is the mother of Professor Selig Adler, and Ida Rubenstein Maisel, who independently of each other wrote about ancestors and earlier generations.” Articles written by Della Rubenstein Adler can be found in 1.13-1.16. Attending the Annual National Meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society, held in Los Angeles at the suggestion of Ida Maisel, Hubert (also known as Huey, Hugh and Hughie to correspondents) Rubenstein was introduced to the Mormon Family History Library in Los Angeles. It was here that he found a copy of the birth certificate of his great grandfather, Simon Beck [1847-1912], and the names of his father and grandfather going back to Krakow, Poland and the eighteenth century. Many of the relatives he traced were killed during the Holocaust, but the descendants of those who survived, or who had emigrated earlier, became prominent doctors and scientists, economics, and other professionals, as well servicemen. Among his better known 1,550 relatives are director, Steven Spielberg, actor Tom Bosley, composer Richard Rodgers and the cofounder of Music Corporation of America (MCA), Dr. Jules Stein. In Buffalo, many of the Maisel and Rubenstein extended families were actively involved as lay leaders in the Jewish Community. Lewis Rubenstein, who left Buffalo, was a prominent artist who specialized in “time painting.” The Jewish Community Center in Buffalo, on Delaware Avenue, includes a mural painted by him depicting a group of young men and women dancing. Hubert Rubenstein died December 27, 2000 in Malibu, Los Angeles, California and is buried in Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, Simi Valley, California.