Getting Started on the Project

Sometime in the early 1990's, cousin Gavin Posner and I were sitting over a meal in Toronto, trying to work out how we were related. We started charting the tree in an architectural fashion, and soon got confused who was "yours" and who was "ours", etc. I went back and wrote to my Dad, and Gavin interviewed his Dad Wally, and thus the start of this ongoing and growing search for the Extended Family of the "Lazari" came into being.

This Blog is intended to be the beginning of a document of the journey I have undertaken, one that consumes and thrills me, and fascinates and intrigues many of the extended Family. As of today (April 15, 2005), there are 402 people (including spouses of direct relations) on the Tree (which I ultimately intend to upload to its own website), of which their are now 6 generations subsequent to the Core Family: Morris & Flora Lazarus.

I have had incredible help from many members of the Family, but most of all from Julian Phillips in Melbourne, and Ginny Counard, in Hamilton, New Jersey, for which I am very grateful! And my thanks to my parents Julian & Doris Lurie of Johannesburg, for their ongoing support and contributions to this vast project.

I seem somehow to have taken on the task to meet as many Family members as possible, and to try to document in very rudimentary detail, the legacy of Morris & Flora!

Le Chayim!