ABOUT THIS SITE
My interest in the Holzinger genealogy was piqued about 20 years ago on a trip Pennsylvania. My husband and I were talking to his uncle Charles, and we asked him where the Holzingers originated. Uncle Charles admitted he really didn’t know—that he thought the Holzingers were from southern Germany, but he wasn't sure if it was his great-grandfather or great-great grandfather who immigrated to America. He wasn’t sure of this ancestor’s full name, but he thought he might have been a gardener. I didn’t think much more on the subject until several years later. I work at a library and was asked to evaluate a database we were thinking of buying— Ancestry Library Edition . I thought the best way to test it was to try to answer a real question—the origin of the Holzingers. I quickly found some Holzingers in Pennsylvania in the 1870 and 1880 US Censuses. I was going about genealogy incorrectly; I should have started with what I knew and worked back, but I quickly determined that I had...
