Deborah S. Holman has been digging up family secrets (the genealogical kind, mostly) for over twenty years. What began as a curiosity about her roots became a full-blown passion—and eventually, a teaching gig.
She’s taught courses, spoken at conferences, and does her best to make genealogy feel less like homework and more like time travel.
She’s the editor of QUEST, the newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut, and leads its Writers Group, helping fellow sleuths turn research into stories.
Deborah is the voice behind the long-running blog “Who We Are and How We Got This Way” and has authored several family history books that blend deep research with a raised eyebrow.
Her novel “Nothing Really Bad Will Happen” mixes family secrets, grit, and wit. Her children’s book “Doris’s New Home” is now available on Amazon.com and shares her mother’s true journey from 1938 Vienna to New York. Her upcoming novel, “Draped in Deceit: The Story of a Gilded Age Grifter”, tells the true tale of her husband’s great-grandmother, a con artist—with a diamond ring and a dozen fake names.
Me vs. ProWritingAid This morning, I made a terrible mistake: I ran two ProWritingAid reports back-to-back. If you’ve never done this, imagine getting a standing ovation and a slap across the face in the same ten seconds. That’s the vibe. I started with the Virtual Beta Reader report…
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