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Ooooh! Serious Strauber-Strober-Strauber Undercount

Surah Henya (Strober) Schkolnik, my great-grandmother

To my cousins in the Strauber-Strober-Struber line: my profuse apologies. In my haste to post updated family trees to the site last week, I made a big mistake. It was a technical error, but it had some real-world ramifications. The biggest of those ramifications is that it left about 250 relatives who should have been shown off the family tree completely.

I announced in my last post that there were slightly more than 1,000 people now counted in the lineage. The actual number of Strauber-Strober-Struber relatives listed on the current family tree is 1,236.

This is significant because the number of living relatives we know about, and of ancestors, is increasing quickly. The online world has meant that people we didn’t know were related have been able to find each other more easily than ever before.

Our GoogleGroup discussion, Jazlowiec, named for the shtetl in Galicia where my great-grandparents lived, has grown steadily over five years.  There are now more than 50 members.

And since posting the family tree on the website, we’ve had a number of inquiries from people who have stumbled upon the site while looking up their own names, or their ancestors’ names, in a search engine.  We’ve been able to confirm at least two of those inquiries and add perhaps another 40 or 50 names to the tree.

So the correct family trees are now posted on the site for the Strauber-Strober-Struber line.  There are two of them: a graphical version and a text version.