Pictures tell an important story, and I want to thank Yogev Strauber, one of the newest of my new-found cousins, for rounding up photos of his immediate family—his grandfather (who has been dead for twenty years), his parents, his siblings, and himself—to be added to his branch of the family tree.
Yogev and his immediate family descend from Elyakim Strauber, who may have been a son of Abraham Aaron Strober, or possibly a nephew, or maybe even a cousin. To see how this clan fits into the big picture, you can look at the graphic tree of the whole Elyakim line or, if you prefer, at a text version.
Additionally, in this first update to the Strauber-Strober-Struber family trees in almost ten months, I’ve also added to the graphical trees some of the photos Jenifer Novik was kind enough to share of her immediate family. I posted the nearly ninety photos in that album at the beginning of the summer.
The software now counts 1,366 people on the Strauber-Strober-Struber family tree. But that number is slightly misleading. There are at least two cases of cousins marrying each other—a common practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but one that drives the software crazy. To make it all work, the individuals and their descendants have to be duplicated. It’s safe to say there are more than 1,300 individuals listed on the tree, maybe even 1,325 or 1,350.
Any way you think about it, it’s an incredible number of people. And it seems in many ways that we’re only scratching the surface.