This is what I knew. I was looking for the son or sons of Fanny and Max Secon, both deceased. Remember, this was years ago, and the internet was not as well developed as it is today. I used "Yahoo People Search" and came up with a list of possible names and telephone numbers. I began to dial. A gentleman answered the phone on my first call. I began my usual spiel, "You don't know me but..." and I told him what I was looking for. Bingo - I was speaking to Morris Secon (photo), a musician in upstate New York. Morris was able to help me uncover yet another generation in the family tree. He told me that his mother, Fanny Thomson (no "p") was the daughter of David and Esther Hana Tomshinksi, who were also cousins (Esther Hana was a Tomshinski, daughter of Samuel. How were they related? I have no clue...)
Morris also told me that his mother Fanny also had a brother Moshe Zalman, whose two children, David and Luba, were in Israel. Bingo again! Luba's grandson was married to my second cousin -- which started the whole project for me in the first place!
Moshe Zalman was NOT a sibling of Chashka and Wolfe, as I had originally thought, but a couisn from another branch. I now assumed (and still do) that David (Morris's grandfather), and Menachem Mendel and Lazur (my father's great-grandfathers) were brothers. And according to Morris, their father was named Lusik - and up to now, he is the earliest person on the tree (on the Thompson side) - I'm guessing - about 1820-1860.
(Aside and explanation: my father's grandfather Meyer and my father's grandmother Chashka [Rachel] were first cousins. I belive I mentioned this in an earlier post.)
If my model was correct, I could now figure out how the two cousins who married each other were related. Marcie (my second cousin - as we shared the same great-grandparents) and her husband were 4th cousins (sharing the same great-great-great-grandparents).
I assumed that since I had solved the mystery, my project was complete. Boy, was I wrong.
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