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Our Nesanel and Rachel (Kudinsky) Coodin Family Reunion:<\/strong> The Creation Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 23, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is our collective story of two 2nd<\/sup> cousins wanting to bring our other cousins together for a family reunion of a once very large and interconnected \u201cCoodin\u201d clan in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to create the platform to dream, plan and implement, for the first time, a family reunion of our branch of the Kudinsky or Coodin family, which originated from Ukraine many generations ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This idea of this family reunion took place when we met in Winnipeg in early July 2019 with a few other members of our family, parents and 2nd<\/sup> cousins.  Little did we know that we would be facing a pandemic nine months later negatively impacting and curtailing our daily lives, our sense of security and certainty, and its impact which connected us to everyone on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In hindsight, it now seems to have been a good idea. It became an important way, a conduit to connect for the first time and perhaps for others to reconnect over the many years with our \u201cflesh and blood\u201d in a project. This project would bring our shared history, shared \u201clived experiences\u201d of many vivid memories of many years ago, into the present and propel the \u201cCoodin\u201d family into the future for those who will follow us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We find it somewhat paradoxical that at this time in our lives that we are trying to rekindle a shared spirit to create a family reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We actually find it curious that as we are coming together to work on this project as cousins from places throughout North America, we may be mirroring a shared experience of our ancestors. They came to Canada, initially Winnipeg at a time of tremendous change and fear. Similar to the forced migration of our ancestors as immigrants and their experiences, we too are now living in a time of tremendous uncertainty, increasing volatility, forced ambiguity of what our lives may become, and most critically what our hopes and desires are for some future stability in this chaotic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our lunch in Winnipeg, we talked, ate, and enjoyed the time together. It became clear and somewhat joyful that a gathering of our once very large \u201cclan\u201d would be timely, and perhaps an important event in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the goals would be to create the conditions for the next generations to be aware, proud of, and realize that they are connected to something much bigger than themselves.  Perhaps even more important is that our ancestors made it possible for us to be living our lives in a much better situation than what they faced, living in Belilivka, Ukraine in the late 1800\u2019s and early 1900\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We reflected on our ancestors, including our great grandfather and great grandmother Nesanel and Rachel, and our great grandfather\u2019s 3 brothers Hershel, Raful, and Judah, and his two sisters of Miriam and Feiga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in October 2020, we gathered together a number of 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> cousins who represented the branches of our large family at our first meeting via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a gathering of all of us who were descendants from our shared Great Grandfather Nesanel and Great Grandmother Rachel. More directly, we were the cousins whose descendants were their children: Mania, Babel, Leib, Razel, (Grisga also known as Hershel or Harry), Shiva, Alex, Bessie, and Nellie<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, we came together and formed this creation team. Ever since October, we have been meeting monthly and have agreed to create and implement an October 2021 Virtual Coodin Family reunion event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our goals are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n