MARTIN MILLER'S HOME PAGE
Welcome to my first attempt
at a Home Page. Right now my primary aim is to
share genealogical information. I began my research to find something about my
grandfather's family. Knowing that my wife's grandparents were from the same
area of Lithuania,
I thought if I traced their roots and wanderings I'd find my own family. I
still haven't found much about my grandfather, but one happy result is that
I've discovered a first cousin of my father's, who survived the Holocaust as a
small child and is still living in Lithuania. Along the way I have
accumulated considerable data on many Jewish families of Syracuse, NY,
who are not related to me.
Some information follows, there is a lot more to come, but
in the meanwhile
Please contact me if you
think we have any relatives in common or if you are interested in researching
family connections among the Jewish community of Syracuse, NY. My address is millerm@mailbox.syr.edu.
My father's father was from
Virbalis, Lithuania. The family name was Kamelsky, which was changed to Miller here
in the US.
His mother's name was Salinger, which can be spelled Sollinger and Sellinger. My father's mother was from Kossovo, Belarus. Her name was Vishnievsky, although her father's siblings
were named Besdin. One of those tsar's army stories.
My mother's parents were
from Kobrin, Belarus. Her father's name was Dubetsky, changed to Dubin in the US. One brother
took the name Steinberg from a brother-in-law. My grandfather's mother was a Golubovitch. My grandmother's name was Klug. She became Cohen when she arrived
in New York.
Her relatives were Goldfarb and Gingold.
My father-in-law's parents
were second cousins, three of his grandparents were named Block. This family was from Sudargas, Lithuania and many nearby towns on both sides of the border of Lithuania and East Prussia. Through numerous cousin
marriages everyone in this family is related to each other over and over.
Related names are Berkman, Bergman, Rothschild, Strasberg and others. My wife's grandmother used to say that
they were related to all the Jews in Naishtut (also known as Kurdirkos Naumiestis or Vladislavovo).
My mother-in-law's father
was from Nova
Praga, Ukraine. Their name was Zaslavsky originally and then Saslow. A related name is Ellis, from Elisavetsky. My mother-in-law's mother was from
Shchedrin, Belarus. Her name was Seligman, but through some mysterious
process the name changed to Zalmanoff in the US.
Related names are Olshansky, Ross and possibly Garelick or Gorelick.
Please check back as I add
more information, and don't hesitate to contact me if you need help with your
research here in Syracuse.
Martin Miller
millerm@mailbox.syr.edu
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since July 24, 1997