My father, along with his 4 siblings, were abandoned by their parents, Charles & Katie (Bailey) Hollenback in 1925 in Owego, NY. Through genealogy I have been able to find the whereabouts of his two sisters, one he met for the first time in 75 years last fall, the other died in 1996, and one brother who died fairly recently. We are still searching for any knowledge of the third brother, Elmer Hollenback who was born abt 1919 in either Bradford County, PA or Tioga County, NY. The children were all taken into the custody of Tioga County, NY and were never allowed any knowledge of their parents or each other. In fact, I believe that they even changed the spelling of Hollenback in such munite ways so that if they did try to look for each other, it would be that more difficult. So Hollenback could be spelled Hollenbeck, Hollenbach, or several other variant ways. Again through genealogy, I have been able to find out that his father, Charles Hollenback died in March 1950 in Bradford County, PA and his mother, Katie (Bailey) Hollenback died in Dec 1975 also in Bradford County, PA. We are also seeking information on the reasons for the abandonment. The records were sealed by the court in 1925. We have already been through the court order routine, only to run into a dead end, in that the current Judge, refused to reveal any of the details in the court records. First we would like to find out about Elmer Hollenback, what happened to him and/or did he ever have any family, and to solve the mystery as to why the parents seemingly left town leaving behind 5 children? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/