Joe's Family Tree

Below is a family tree that Joe wrote on a piece of shirt cardboard sometime in the 1960’s. He would not throw a shirt cardboard away until he had used it for notes, charts such as this, or pencil sketches.

There have always been stories about how the name Shapiro came to be in our family. This reveals the answer. Mordecai Simon Hillelowitz was a merchant in Russia and worked for a man named Shapiro. He became to be known as "Shapiro's boy". We do not know when he took on the name as the family name but we can see it reflected in the family tree starting with his wife and children.

Below you can see that I have transcribed this so it is more legible for those that have trouble reading script.