Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
So now that it's past Wordless Wednesday, can you comment on who that man is? I can read the labels and surmise that he's your cousin, but how far removed? Curious people want to know...ok, at least one curious person, but there may be more.
ReplyDeleteAt least you read the labels! :) He is my second cousin once removed. His grandfather and my great-grandfather were brothers. He was so excited to learn the family's original last name (Gorodetsky, which my great-grandfather changed to Gordon less than a year after arriving in the U.S.) that he named his company after it.
DeleteHe named his company Gorodetsky? How cool is that!?!?!
ReplyDeleteI hope you are keeping in touch - and that someone (perhaps he himself) gets inspired to find more stuff and join you in the genealogy happy dance!
Yup, named the company and his Web domain Gorodetsky. Very cool indeed.
DeleteDefinitely keeping in touch! In fact, when we got together on July 4th, he showed me the family tree he's been building online. And then, of course, I found more information for him ....