Blended Branches Blooming with Robert and Larry Cox

Join Janice Gilyard and Cherekana Feliciano for a conversation with Robert and Larry Cox as they share their genealogy journey. Robert Cox is the Vice President of the Mountain View Historical Association (of Mountain View, CA). He writes two columns for the association’s newsletter: “Finding Your Family History” which provides general genealogical advice, and “Mountain View Family History Fun Facts,” which highlights interesting family history discoveries of Mountain View’s leading citizens.  He first studied genealogy in Dallas, TX in 1990. Since then, he has constructed a family tree with over 53,000 entries, all of which are featured on the Wikitree genealogy website (www.wikitree.com). His Wikitree profiles include those of his first cousin, Larry Cox, who is also a guest on this show, and distant relative Cherekana Feliciano.  Larry Cox spent 20 years in leadership positions at Amnesty International, beginning in 1976 at Amnesty International USA where he served as its first Press Officer, Communications Director, Deputy Executive Director and coordinated its Program to Abolish the death penalty. Cox was the Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation, an international organization collaborating with indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon to protect their rights and environment. He served 11 years as Senior Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary, he also co-founded and co-directed Kairos: The Center on Religions, Rights and Social Justice. Spurred on by his Cousin Robert and a surprising discovery about their great grandfather, he has become passionate about genealogy.