Holdengraber

It had to start somewhere, though, didn’t it? Someone had to be the first Holdengraber, the first to adopt that striking surname whether by choice

When I first started trying to put the JewishGen records into order, I thought for a moment I’d stumbled on a 180-year-old mistake. The name

Most breakthroughs in family history come incrementally. The fuller the tree becomes, the easier it is to add some new name to it. When I

I lost count a long time ago of the number of times I have revisited the records at JewishGen. It’s been months of pandemic-time searching

I wondered about Esther Holdengraber for a long time. ¶ I first found her name when I did a search through Newspapers.com. She appears there

I recently discovered the Arolsen Archives, dedicated to preserving the records of the Holocaust. Up to now, I have found Yad Vashem and the United

In the 1970s, a handful of Jewish genealogists and amateur researchers began making copies of the extant birth, death and marriage records from Soviet-bloc countries.

Sometime in the 1790s, my great-great-great-great-grandparents walked into history.  ¶Around the time George Washington stepped aside for John Adams, they moved south from German-speaking Galicia into