| Obituary for Robert Lewis Miller
(14Aug1942-11Sep2005) as written by his brother Richard. |
| Obituary for Ralph Kenneth Andrist
(11Jan1914-19Sep2004) as written by the Andrist Sisters: Jill, Mary and Melissa. |
Dick and Jill Miller are enthusiastic amateur family-history researchers. Each has identified and documented over 1,000 relatives. If this interests you, we invite you to take a look or to contact us.
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? The two
Alps, Zahm (calm)
Andrist and
Wild Andrist, are visible from the famous rotating restaurant atop the
Schilthorn. (See close-up peak photographs and a detailed topographic map, here.) 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
that
explains their names.
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Cyndi's List of
Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Jewish
Genealogy Resources
What's in a
(Jewish) name?
Brody,
in Galicia (For Russian Jews around 1900, Brody
was the
gateway
to the West.)
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