Adding Carol KOSKI to Descendants of: Kosky, Koskie, Koski, Jacofsky, Jacovsky, Jakofsky, Gekofsky, Gwykosky, Kaye, Conway, etc. Discussions

Of course it’s relevant to her. It doesn’t matter what her age is. Whatever information she can bring to the table the better. Has anyone interviewed her to see what she knows about her Koskys?

I understand. The thing is - does anyone know her personally to check that her health is up to it before "strangers" making contact? According to Geni, we are talking about someone who will soon be 110 years old.

The records I found are in online British archives.
Actually, I doubt she (the formal given name I have for her is Hettie) is alive. In any case, it was her first and ex-husband Judah that was a KOSKY (KOSOKOWSKY). Their son (who adopted the family name of her second husband - possibly even before she remarried) Maurice was married to my first cousin twice removed Hettie nee TiITTON. (So in my first post here, I should have said "the husband of a distant cousin".)

The birth of Maurice was registered in the same quarter of his parents' marriage. (4th qtr 1919)
His death was identified for me a number of years ago from a more direct family member of the TITTON branch. This is by whom I was told the name Carole (and not Hettie as appears on records.).

I have documented what I can till now, on the Geni tree:-
Hetty Kosky
There I added today the two husbands. If these exist on another version of the tree - am happy to merge.

I imagine that the family member who gave me the name "Carole" became confused with the name of her daughter-in-law. All official records give this as Hetty (or maybe Hettie). So, I have documented the what is most likely to have been an error and corrected this on the tree.
Also found her death index, and have given reference on her profile.
David

Also, found Judah's grave reference on Jewishgen. He is buried in Edmonton (Federation of Synagogues), Greater London, England.

I’m not sure about the “Hettie” answer. Maybe he should have the real surname with the adopted surname at the end.

Is Carole’s birth date just a rough estimate by Geni or an actual date? Could she really be 110? If so, we don’t want to bother her but we do want her profile in the group. How would we go about doing that?

I was the one who just went through all the Koskys I could recognize and added them to the group for discussion. If you don’t think that profile should be included, take them out.

Have you taken a DNA test and uploaded the results to any additional sites? That might help us overcome different spellings and name changes to really see who’s related to whom!
Lesley

110 was her minimum age according to Geni estimate. We now know, from a document, that she was born 16 March 1900 .
Who is likely be relevant to your biological tree is Judah Kosakovsky
1893-1960
Currently, I don't have his father's name and although we know he was buried in Edmonton in the London area (under the auspices of the Federation of Synagogues, I don't have a photo of his grave. It is very likely that the engraving on the stone follows Jewish tradition (as this is an orthodox organisation who are careful about these matters), and if it is still legible, then there should be a patronymic.

I am currently taking the Carole name as misinformation as there is nothing I found so far to support this. I now give this name a token mention in the "also known as" field. Maybe I should try and reach out to the person who told me this (it was quite a few years ago). Possibly, I will do this next week.

In my case, DNA test would have no purpose as I am not biologically related to this family, but it is by marriage of a distant cousin.

Next week, possibly, I will have another look for Judah Kosakovsky in the UK census. So far, only have has divorced in 1939 registery - does not seem to be living with family.

/only have as divorced/