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http://www.coussins.org/Family/Coussinstree.htm

http://www.coussins.org/Family/Coussins Documents.htm 
This details the links down for Abraham Simon Cussin and Millie Moscovitch Murnik-A guideline tree

Family names
We are trying to establish the tree from the descendants of Hirsh HaCohen who was born
about 1641 in Lithuania.

The difficulties of pre 18th Century research Discussion page

Tree of Abraham Cussin The Coussins and Coussin families

Tree of Hyman Cussin Philip and Stanley Morrison's Family

Tree of Morris Cussin - Being updated

Tree of Feldman and Goldberg

The Rakusins/Cussins came to the UK
 and practiced their art of Slipper
 making. They were Zapushniks.

It was because of Feival Morrison
 remembering his visit to Morris
Cussin's workshop in the basement
 of his home in Leeds that brought
 us together with his family.

Shoemakers working in Leeds around 1920

And a perfect example of history repeating
itself is in Craig's profession as a Dance Shoe
 maker, essentially a Zapushnik, a shoemaker

Craig in his workshop 1995

Abraham , Morris and Hyman Cussins 
were shoemakers and repairers,
Zapushniks. When they first came to
the UK from Lithuania They also worked
 in tailoring and two of them ran Fruit
 and Veg Stalls in the Glasgow
Gallowgate.

Just to explain the name differences.

We had emigrated to the UK as Rakusin.
Changed that to Cusin which did not look
good in the UK  so we changed this to
Cussin and in Abrahams branch to Cussins,
Coussin and Coussins.

They had their own personal reasons.
One reason was that because of some anti
Semitic feelings from some areas of the population
 in Scotland we may have tried to anglicise our
name to fit into what had become our home.
In the case of Philips Morrison's Dad he
changed from Cussin to Morrison. In the Leeds
branch however, and because there was a large
Jewish community there, in the case of some
family members the name stayed Rakusin as
well as Cussins.

Common ancestry:

We will of course be to find a common ancestry
 by using the abilities of genealogists and Len
Yodaiken has sent us a chart with a common
ancestor to the Rakusin family now living in
South Africa. Its a PDF File and can be viewed
 by downloading the free reader from Acrobat
PDF Reader.

Email me and I will send the attachment

craig.coussins@btinternet.com

Building a new website: A few words from Craig

I decided that the old website www.itsourfamily.co.uk
is difficult and while full of features it can be difficult to
navigate. I have commissioned the original designer to
come up with an alternative site and one that is easy to
navigate with trees that are easy to read and download.
Unfortunately this will take time but hopefully will be
completed by mid 2009. Meantime the site is still there
and access to the pages should now be clear of restrictions.
Philip has come up with a great idea and that is to chart
down the three brothers from Abraham, Hyman and Morris
Cussin, adding photographs of family members at each stage
and the sound bites and videos for each family member as
we come into the latter part of the 20th century. Fortunately
 my father, Jack, was a cine photographer and he took
films of most of his family to Louis and Leba (Rebecca)
his parents to cousins and other relatives which is a
blessing for their families as well. What we may find is
 that other family members took cine film , audio tape or
videos as well as the century progressed and we can add
these in.

Two Great DVD's
Everything's Illuminated
and Europa Europa.

Europa Europa:
A fresh, incredible story in the way that only
true stories can be, it is based on the memoirs
of Solomon Perel, who survived the War ordeal
through a chain of extraordinary events

This "incredible, true story" (Los Angeles Times)
is at once "eye-opening, harrowing and humorous"
 (Leonard Maltin) as it recounts the severe actions
a young boy must take in order to survive the Holocaust.
Based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a young
German Jew, the film "bounds from one jaw-dropping
episode to the next" (The New Yorker) and puts you
in the middle of war-torn Europe where ingenuity,
timing and luck are the key to survival. Separated
from his family at the age of thirteen, Solly
(Marco Hofschneider) takes on various identities
to hide his Jewish heritage. First passing himself
off as an orphan and later as one of the
"Hitler Youth," Solly carries on his charade, hoping
desperately to keep his identity hidden and make
it through the war alive.