Paper helps build family tree connections

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Thanks to The Jewish Voice & Herald (now The Jewish Voice) for its part in helping the Weisman family, formerly of Providence and Iasi Russia (now Romania) meet. Offspring of siblings David, Nettie and Samuel Weisman met for the first time (for some of us) on Aug, 11, thanks to my story, “A love story,” in the May 11, 2012 issue of this paper.

Trying to explain the family tree has been a challenge; it is enough to surmise that we are all children, grandchildren or related cousins of these three siblings. If it weren’t for my published story, my third cousin Lewis, Nettie’s grandson, would not have contacted me. Lewis, who lives overseas, visited Rhode Island and saw our cousins Edith Rotkopf (formerly of Providence, now a Connecticut resident), Nancy Hawksley (from South County), Sandy Gross and her son Mark (from Cranston), my mother Mary (from North Dartmouth, Mass.) and my husband and me. During a lunch at Gregg’s, we tried to trace the connections.

It was surprising, informative and, frankly, very cool that we are all related and now know each other! We have a Weisman Family Facebook page to record what we learned and to stay connected; we hope to meet other relatives.

Thank you to the paper that brought us together … you can take people out of Providence, but I guess you can’t take Providence out of those who lived here!  They certainly still read this paper!

Others related to the Weisman clan may email me at ssfranklin@verizon.net.

Seena Franklin

Tiverton