INTRODUCTION OF THE KRAMER FAMILY HISTORY

INTRODUCTION OF KRAMER HISTORY

History with its flickering lamp
stumbles along the trail of the past.
trying to reconstruct its themes, to
revive its echoes and kindle with pale
gleams the passion of former days.

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

The recorded past is available for us to discover. We can define our personal heritage at almost any time it is convenient for us to do so. The recent past and the present are not as easy to discover.

Have you ever wondered why your grandmother and grandfather so treasured a faded photograph, a worn bible, or that small garden patch in their back yard, or, why the holidays spent with your mother's family are different from those occasions spent with your father's side? Remembering and preserving these memories, customs and traditions all establish a family heritage. Many families do not know how their descendant's came from, or where geographically their family came from, with this genealogical study, I am hoping that I will give you at least a start of where the Kramer family came from and who were are descendent's.

This is written to help you identify and communicate with living members of your immediate family, in fact your distinct family. The information contained herein can only be a starting point for you, the reader. It is a general look at our name KRAMER, the people who share it, and how to further this study, so all of us can get a better understanding of who we are. and give a better understanding of our family history and individual lineage or family genealogy.

Our unique family heritage is I call "clues to our past." These clues will unlock the most interesting adventure you will ever experience. These clues learned from other members of our family can teach you the story of our origin!

Unless we have been especially wise and especially fortunate, many of our older relatives will have left us before we have gleaned their knowledge of our family's past. And worse, they may have left us with few clues as to their origins.

Who were those people who gave you your family name? Why were some of us given baptismal and confirmation names? Where did names come from? In what parts of the world did our namesakes settle? How long did they stay? Where did they go, those who left for other lands? What were they like when they were there? Why did they leave their homeland?

For most of us, the questions we have about our past never get beyond the level of idle curiosity. Not because we are not interested -- what could be more fascinating than to trace our origins? But where does one begin to look? What documents should we seek? Have spelling changes occurred in a name since its origin, brought on by time, by migration, by ignorance, or even by political expediency? Such tracing almost always involves considerable amounts of time, often a considerable amount of money, and some special skills.

Because I know that you probably do not have the time or the money or the special skills we believe are needed to follow through with tracing the Kramer tree, we put it off "until later." And so, our good intentions often fail to bear fruit -- fruit, in this case, which would be of interest not only to us but to our own descendants. Information collected might also be of interest to many others of the same or a related surname elsewhere in the world. My effort was the inspiration of these searches. But the longer I put it off, the more difficult the tracing became. This is why, when I had the opportunity to have a few of my friends help me some tracing for me, and do it at a truly modest cost, I was glad to take advantage of their offer.

As you read on, allow your memory to recall and associate anything you may have ever heard a relative say -- even the most apparently offhand fragment of information may be found later to fit into the puzzle of reconstructed origins. For beyond a certain point our origins are all shrouded in mystery. If you can help me give a more complete breakdown on our family. Please send all information to me at:

In order to understand both the origins of and any changes which may have occurred in our family, we must remember that an individual family is always part of a larger group -- a tribe, a clan, a people. For most individuals, the most likely place to begin our understanding is in the histories of tribes and the people who preceded us.

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