Back on the Hunt!

I was recently contacted (via email) by Carl Matisse, a descendant of Albert Matisse who was mentioned by my grandmother (see first post in this blog).

To see what else we can dig up I joined Ancestry.com and have created two family trees. One tracing back from Daconta up to Matisse (hopefully) and one tracing up from Carl Matisse up to Matisse (hopefully).

Another mystery to solve is whether Eugene Matisse (Olimpia's father) was related to Albert and Carl as my grandmother suggest. One clue to that mystery is a 1913 NYC directory I found. See the image above:

You should notice that Eugenee (spelled wrong, plenty of other evidence supporting Eugene Matisse), Carl and Albert are all listed at E116th Street.

It would still be great to get Eugene's birth certificate. That would be the holy grail!

More soon...

- Mike