A Blue-Collar Blue BloodThe Genealogue
The New York Sun tells the interesting story of an enigmatic Genealogist and art collector named William M. V. Kingsland, who died last March. No one knew of his origins until two other genealogists, Leslie Corn and Roger Joslyn, took on the case. They found that he was a native New Yorker born Melvin Kohn.In a motion filed in 1960 to change his name, Kingsland’s parents said of their…