My mother's mother's mother's family

This is what I know. These are my mother's parents: This is my Babbie, Raichel Globerman, with my Zaida Maishel.

Babbie and Zaida were both born in Pinsk (now Belarus) and came to Canada in the 1920s (Zaida first and then Babbie). This is a photo of Raichel's mother:



In this photo, you can see Chaya Laya (Sapochnik)with her second husband Perlov and their children. My Babbie and her brother Abraham Weiner were the children of Chaya Laya and her first husband.

In the following photo, you can see my Babbie's cousin Bunia-Bella (Sapochnick)Furman and her family. In fact, in the corner, in my Zaida's handwriting, you see "Ma's cousins".



I learned about this family fairly recently. In 1992 or 1993, I went to a family Bat Mitzvah in Edmonton. There I met the Furman family (and learned that I had cousins in Montreal as well!). When I asked how the Furmans were related, my mother's uncle Dov Perlov (Babbie's half-brother) explained the following:

He said that Chaya Laya's father, Dov Sapochnik, had been married twice. First to Chaya Laya's mother (name unknown) and then, to a sister (Feigel) of Chaya Laya's mother! (Apparently this was not uncommon...). This would mean that Bunia (Feigel's daughter) and Chaya Laya (my great-grandmother) were both half-sisters (having the same father) and first cousins (as their mothers were sisters). My Babbie considered Bunia her aunt (sister of her mother), but Bunia was younger than my Babbie.

This week, I met Bunia's grand-daughter, who is a grandmother of four! So I met Bunia's great-great-great grandchildren!