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The next-generation ancestor lines of A. Richard Miller are: Miller and Hoffman from Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Poland); Kaplan and Brodinsky (Brodie, Brody) from Yelisavetgrad, Kiev Oblast, Russia (now Kirovograd, Ukraina). Other lines include: Golub (which, like Columbus, means "dove"), Kriesfeld (Kressfield), Slotopolsky (Slater), Teresofsky (Terres).

The next-generation ancestor lines of Jill Andrist Miller are: Andrist from Boltigen, Switzerland and (Soren) Knudsen from Sevil, Jutland, Denmark);Witt from Wangerin, Pomerania, Prussia (now Wegorzyno? in Poland) and Buck (so far, 1860 in Minnesota). Other lines include: Batchelder (Elder Brewster et al), Case, Fay (Elder Brewster et al), Goss, Leach/Leech, Swan, Woodruff/Woodrough.
     Elder Brewster descendants are common, but how many families are memorialized by two Alps? In this Niesen panorama postcard (thanks, Willi Andrist!), Zahm (calm) Andrist and Wild Andrist are the second and third mountains ascending to the left from the word (and village of) Kiental to the southeast. Jill's Andrist branch emigrated in the 1840s from Boltigen and Zweisimmen, just upstream in the Simm Valley (west in that panorama photo, around the corner in the distance) from Simmental. Willi also offers an ancient legend which explains their names.

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