Greetings, My Cousins is an epistolary story told entirely in online communications. Mostly told through email, there are Facebook and LinkedIn communications also shared. It is both about dialog and information sharing. The dialog is what inspires the project to its eventual resting place with you. It all begins with a Family Tree created for…
06-17-2011 through 09-11-2011 Judith Spivak – Hello, Our DNA matches. My name is Judith Spivak. I live in California, born in Connecticut, Please respond. It should be interesting. John – Judith, My apologies for taking so long to respond. Your communication came at a time that a lot was going on. In addition to the…
October 15, 2018 I was flipping through my genealogy program last night and realized with a shock that I hadn’t put my Mom’s adopted mother’s death date, nor my Mom’s death date in it. And, of course, I can’t find her adopted mom’s obit online or her husband’s, but I know I have the newspaper…
Sat 7/11/2020 4:38 PM Jim & Jeff, I realized after the last message that there is a follow-up to the story in why today we spell our name “Elcik.” If we look at the history of usage based on United States Federal Census data, we learn: In 1910 Sr. had his surname recorded as “Elsik”…
Fri 7/17/2020 7:35 AM John (NY), Still another way of looking at the mystery of are we related, but this time with even more detail. My Family Relations John P. Elcik, V (1986) – My son, Science Teacher John P. Elcik, IV (1952) – Me, Doctorate in Educational Administration, College Administrative Software Marketing John P…
Friday, July 17, 2020, 2:09 PM John (NY), This email is to share with you that Ancestry.com should send you instructions for logging in. My educated guess is that family members have been on ancestory.com in the past. They chose to make their Family Trees private. Even if they had not, Ancestry hides the names…
Saturday, July 18, 2020, 6:03 AM To: Elcik, John (DFA) <John.Elcik@dfa.state.ny.us> John, I have a fresh candidate to be a presumptive Great-Grandfather. John Ilcik was born in Slovakia on December 28, 1910. He came to New York through Canada. The one concern I will raise is that he would have been 33 when he fathered…
