A while ago I was given some information that a cousin from the Elia family had done one of those Genealogy DNA tests and had a hit. I was given the name and it was someone from the Rizk family.
With a Rizk match I was a little bit excited as the Khoury family was originally Rizk and I like to always increase the family and get to know more cousins.
Well I didn't really do a lot of digging as I didn't have much information so I let it go. But a couple of days ago a cousin asked if I had ever done a DNA test which got me thinking about it again. So went back to the original message I received and decided to start doing some internet searches using the email address I had. I got a couple of hits on Google giving me a location.
I was able to find a Facebook profile and found even though the person was living in Australia they are originally from the US and the name was spelt Rask not Rizk. I searched Ancestry.com and came up with some online family trees that showed the family was from Hadchit in North Lebanon. This to me is quite interesting as when I was in Lebanon in 2010 my uncle told me that we are also related to the Rizk family in the Bsharre are....Hadchit is not far from Bsharre.
Now where this gets interesting is that going back to the story of Boulos Rizk the founder of our village his family fled from Forzol after killing the local Governor. I was told the family came to the south but there is no reason why they couldn't have crossed the mountains to the Hadchit area.
I'm hoping this opens up to a new branch in the family and I get a reply to the email that I sent.
