This hits home.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/family_decals.png

Grandma's Obit

I had the privilege of writing my grandmother's obituary when she passed away last month. After working through my family's genealogy for the past 12 years, I've read lots of obits. Here's what I wrote:

Rose Sarah Telles nee Broitman passed away peacefully on July 30, 2011 in West Orange, NJ. She had just celebrated her 93^rd birthday. Born in Savran, Ukraine in 1918, the Broitman family traveled through Bucherest, Toronto, and Philadelphia before settling in Brooklyn in 1929. She married the love of her life, Sam Telles, in 1938 and raised three children.

After Sam’s passing in 1972, Rose moved to northern New Jersey, living first in Lake Hopatcong and then—from 1977 to 2003—in White Meadow Lake. She is best known for the many years she took care of children, first in her home, then at the White Meadow Temple nursery school, and finally at the Chabad Early Learning Center in White Meadow Lake. She spent her final years at the Daughters of Israel nursing facility in West Orange, NJ.

Rose was predeceased by her husband Sam Telles, parents Abram and Ida (Darish) Broitman, sister Anita and her husband Sam Schechtman, brother Aaron and his wife Fanny (Fuchs) Broitman, and brother Joseph Broitman. She is survived by her three devoted children: Phyllis Badanes of Brooklyn, NJ; Stephen & Rochelle Weil of Del Ray Beach, FL; and Marty & Ina (Schrank) Telles of Montville, NJ. Rose is remembered by her six grandchildren (Shira, Eric, Shawn, Jennifer, Selene, & Randi), seven great-grandchildren (Sam, Jonah, Jacob, Sophia, Asher, Paul, & Joss), and many nieces and nephews. Rose is also remembered by the hundreds of families she touched as their children’s honorary Bubbie Shoshanah.

The memorial service will take place at Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel (68 Old Short Hills Rd, Livingston, NJ) at noon on Monday, August 1. Interment to follow at Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, Long Island. Shiva will be observed at the home of her son, Martin Telles (14 Baccarat Ct., Montville, NJ) immediately after return from cemetery (5:30 – 9:00 pm) and from Tuesday through Thursday (2:00 – 9:00 pm).

In lieu of flowers, donations in Rose’s honor should be made to American Cancer Society.

But, when we brought it to the funeral home, they said it would be prohibitively expensive to publish it as is. So, I quickly cut it down. In the published version, my Uncle Marty became "Mary"! You can find it here.

Rose Sarah Telles (nee Broitman) passed away peacefully on July 30, 2011, in West Orange, N.J. Rose was born in Savran, Ukraine, in 1918 and moved to Brooklyn in 1929. She lived in White Meadow Lake, N.J., from 1977 to 2003 and spent her final years in West Orange. Rose was predeceased by her husband, Sam Telles; parents, Abram and Ida (Darish) Broitman; sister, Anita and her husband, Sam Schechtman; brother, Aaron and his wife, Fanny (Fuchs) Broitman and brother, Joseph Broitman. She is survived by her three devoted children, Phyllis Badanes of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Stephen and Rochelle Weil of Delray Beach, Fla., and Marty and Ina (Schrank) Telles of Montville, N.J. Rose is remembered by her six grandchildren, Shira, Eric, Shawn, Jennifer, Selene and Randi; seven great-grandchildren, Sam, Jonah, Jacob, Sophia, Asher, Paul and Joss and many nieces, nephews and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations in Rose's honor should be made to the American Cancer Society .

Published in Star-Ledger on August 3, 2011

The obituary was also published in the New Jersey Jewish News

Rose Telles

Rose Telles (Broitman), 93, of West Orange died July 30, 2011. Born in Savron, Ukraine, she lived in Bucharest, Romania; Toronto; Philadelphia; Brooklyn; Lake Hopatcong; and White Meadow Lake before moving to West Orange in 2004.

Mrs. Telles cared for children as the honorary “Bubbie Shoshanah,” first in her home, then at White Meadow Temple nursery school in Rockaway, and finally at the Chabad Early Learning Center in White Meadow Lake.

She was a lifetime member of White Meadow Temple and a Hadassah Woman of Valor.

Predeceased by her husband, Sam, she is survived by two daughters, Phyllis Badanes of Brooklyn and Rochelle Weil of Delray Beach, Fla.; her son, Marty of Montville; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Services were held Aug. 1 with arrangements by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Livingston. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

I hope this was a fitting tribute for future genealogists to find!

A Eulogy for my Grandmother

Eulogy for my Grandmother

Rose Sarah Telles (1920 1918 - 2011)

Aug 1 2011

If you asked my grandmother when she was born, she might have said that she was born one July day in 1920 in Odessa. Well, that’s not quite right. Her sister—ten years her senior—used to tell Grandma Rose that she was born in the winter, not summer. And 1920 wasn’t really the right year; since she didn’t have a birth certificate, she could choose her year of birth – either to make her younger or eligible for social security. And it wasn’t Odessa. She was born in a village 130 miles from Odessa!

This ambiguity about her origins typified my grandmother; she was totally unencumbered by logic and specifics. What did it matter? She was here, filling the room with laughter and love. She had a story to tell and had a talent for finding someone to listen, whether you knew her or not! Even now, across the country, there are thousands of people she met in airports or restaurants who know about her Sammy, her father’s fruit stand, or her opinions about worker’s rights!

Reizel Sura Broitman was born in 1918 in a small shtetl in Ukraine called Savran. Her father was a successful lumber merchant—successful enough that her oldest siblings, Anita and Aaron, were well educated in the gymnasium. Fate wasn’t as kind to her; she was born in the thick of the Russian revolution, with pogroms terrorizing the Jewish communities throughout the Pale of Settlement. As a young child—my son’s age—her family fled Savran to points west. They gave up everything to leave, suffering poverty in Bucherest before taking the train through Serbia to Trieste, Italy and onto the steamship S.S. Wilson to Halifax in 1924. Five years later, after stops in Toronto (where her brother Joe was born) and Philadelphia, they finally settled in Brooklyn, her home for the next 48 years.

She once told me that she met my grandfather—Sam Telles—because she was walking down the street and overheard a group of people talking in Yiddish about communism. Surprised to be hearing Yiddish—ridiculous, considering the number of Yiddish speakers in that part of Brooklyn—she stayed to listen. She saw him and fell in love. She worked as a garment worker and her brother was very involved with the garment union. The need for worker’s rights to protect the everyman was key to her philosophy, and this fire for equality stayed with her throughout her life. I remember one story of her, late in her 70s, chastising a group of seniors in Rockaway for their lack of support for the school budget. Didn’t they know how important it was to the children?

My grandmother married my grandfather in 1938. She swore, paradoxically, that they were married by a very religious rabbi and that they didn’t have a ketubah! (Incidentally, I was amazed to find the ketubah in her personal papers a few years ago. Turns out they were legit!). They raised three children while my grandfather worked at his family’s fur store. They also helped raise a granddaughter and took care of my great-grandparents. Through the depression, war, family squabbles, and serious illness they worked hard to keep a family together.

My grandfather’s 1972 death was the shock of her life – a shock that she never overcame and never forgot to remind you about. But, despite of her seeming inability to move forward with her life, she picked up and left Brooklyn to be closer to her daughter and son in New Jersey. I am so lucky to have had her living just a few doors from me growing up, taking care of me when I was sick, making salmon croquets and once baked zwi-bach, and playing Chinese checkers with me on demand. She was a remarkable storyteller and always gave her shoulder to me to rest my head – even when I was too tall for that to be comfortable. She turned her love of children into a career, first watching a handful of kids in her house to fill the gaps between the end of the school day and the end of the work day, and then working as an aide in two local Jewish nursery schools. But she wasn’t just any day care aide – it is rare for one person to have so many kids call her grandma or Mora Shoshana. And for all her love of other people’s children, her pride and adoration of her own children (Phyllis, Shelly & Steve, Marty & Ina), grandchildren (Shira, Eric, Jennifer, Selene, Randi, and me) and great-grandchildren (Sam, Jonah, Jacob, Sophia, Asher, Paul & Joss) was boundless.

This is the woman that many of you knew. Loving, kvetchy, thoughtful, illogical, and incredibly generous. She would go out of her way to drive past my house growing up, and then grill my mother about the reason for the particular non-standard placement of cars in the driveway to make sure that an out of place vehicle didn’t mean someone was at home sick. And no amount of pleading would convince her that you really didn’t want to take a banana or hardboiled egg as a memento of your visit with her. Whenever I spoke to her, she only wanted to know what developmental milestone my children were reaching.

My grandmother embraced her Jewish identity, although she became a regular temple goer relatively late in life. She was a Hadassah Woman of Valor, a passionate supporter of Israel (anyone here buy a tree from her?), and a lifetime member of White Meadow Temple. She didn’t miss a Shabbas service for many years, always sitting in the same seat - next to my grandfather’s memorial placard. I’m heartbroken but happy to know that the placard below his will no longer say “reserved” – that they are together again, the way she wanted it to be.

Future Posts

There are so many posts I need to write, but life keeps on getting in the way.

• Google+ and Facebook. My perspective on the fundamental differences between their ecosystems.
• My academic genealogy, Nuerotree, and the Mathematics Genealogy project
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Happy Father's Day

Celebrating all fathers. And grandfathers. And great-great-great-great grandfathers!

High School Collage

I once spent a lot of time and love on this. Old style cutting and pasting. Enjoy

From Mindfull Meandering

Homes of My Ancestors

Homes of My Ancestors

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

I saw a link to a BigHugeLabs tool for embedding maps. So, I'd play around by putting in the countries my kid's ancestors came from. Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania. I think it tells a clear story about where we're from. Solidly Eastern European Jewry. I wish it went to the town level - I'll have to find a tool that does that quickly.

Triangle Shirtwaist Anniversary

The Triangle Shirtwaist disaster--the largest accident in New York's history before 9/11--occurred 100 years ago this year. HBO has a documentary and all of the networks are commemorating the tragedy, especially in light of the recent labor controversies in Wisconsin, Ohio, and elsewhere.

I don't believe that I had any family in the fire, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did. My ancestors, like many Jewish immigrants, worked in the garment industry in NYC. They were involved in the labor movements - one of my grandmother's brothers was involved in the leadership in one union, and was not a non-violent time. Going through the census records exposes the occupations: cutter, finisher, presser, etc. My maternal great-grandfather was a furrier and my paternal grandmother's family had a haberdashery!

I can't imagine the conditions that they worked in, and I can't imagine working in those conditions today. I hope the centennial of the tragedy leads to continued fair treatment of labor of all sorts.

Food + Genealogy = Love

I loved Top Chef this week. The contestants were taken to Ellis Island and asked to create a dish that exemplified their ancestry. I was in my element! I read a bit more about the genealogical investigation here, but not nearly enough for my taste.

The winner remarked, as she was planing with her mother, that she would focus on her Italian heritage and put her Jewish heritage aside. It was probably a good strategic move, but made me wonder what I would have made if I had been in her shoes (and if I could cook a whit). The world's best briscuit and noodle kugel? Sweet and savory rugeluch?

And what about Iron Chef: Battle Kosher? That I'd love to watch!

Always proud of Grandma Rose!

I'm always proud of my Grandmother, pictured above courtesy of the NJ Jewish News. At 92 years old she has good days and bad - but she retains her spark! She was quoted in a recent article about high school students coming to learn about history from those who have lived it. The article even gives her a quote:

The Daughters of Israel residents were all smiles, full of stories about their lives. Rose Shoshana Telles described to her interviewers how she moved from Russia to Canada and eventually to Brooklyn.

“I was a teacher,” she told a reporter, “and these students are very bright. They’re brighter than I was.”

Now you see where I got my love of history! You can read the entire article here.

Iasi Pogrom - 1941

My paternal grandmother's family immigrated from Bivolari, Romania - a little village north of Iasi, Romania, on the eastern border with Moldova. My great-grandfather left around 1911, but his parents and several of his brother's families remained. Those left behind eventually moved to Iasi itself, and many remained there through WWII.

Lazar Leibovic wrote an account of the Iasi Pogrom of June 29, 1941 that captures the horror of those days. It is all the more powerful given that my cousins were there experiencing the mindless terror themselves. An English translation has been generously provided by Anca Dumitru-Sapuna of Bucharest, Romania.

How many ancestors do you have?

The Eastman newsletter had an interesting post on the numbers of ancestors we each have. You can find it here. Ten generations back and you have over 1000 direct genetic ancestors (e.g., parents, grandparents, great-grandparents). Twenty generations back and you have over 1 million. Thirty generations and you have over 1 billion. Of course it doubles at each generation.

It made me wonder a few things:

• These numbers assume that each ancestor is unique. In any one generation, the same direct ancestor might appear multiple times. The larger the size of the generation, the more prevalent it is going to be.
• How do these numbers compare to the total population size at the time? Clearly, these number cross, with world population rising (exponentially?) as time goes forward and the size of the generation getting smaller by half. According to one account, the world's population in 1800 was one billion. That was approximately ten generations back (where there would have been about 1000 ancestors). But if you go farther back, you'll have more ancestors than people?
• If your ancestry comes from one cultural group or geographic area to the exclusion of others, how much more prevalent is amount of duplication of ancestors?
• Can genetic testing give us any insights into the numbers of ancestors that are duplicated? At which generation those duplications exist?
• Are there more sophisticated ways to measure or estimate these things mathematically? What other information do you need?

I'd love any insights or pointers to existing scholarly work.

Our Town Bivolari

In the aftermath of WWII, residents of the displaced Jewish communities of Europe often came together to remember the world they had known. Yizkor books were written by these community groups--books which enumerated the names of those they had lost and the way of life they had endured. When I started studying my family's history, I was fortunate enough to be working next to a world class university library with an extensive collection of these books. In particular, the Yizkor book for Bivolari, the town in Romania where my paternal grandmother's family is from, provided a wealth of information. I also found the books for several other towns in Europe important to my family, Khotyn and Tarnobrzeg chief among them. Unfortunately for me, these books are typically in Yiddish and Hebrew, and I speak neither.

JewishGen has be posting translations of these Yizkor books, and I found out today that Bivolari is now among them! Our Town Bivolari is written in Hebrew with a Romanian summary, and I may have an extract of the Romanian section courtesy of a professor in The Ohio State University Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature. The JewishGen page currently has a translation of the "List of Martyrs," which includes several members of my extended family. With time--and donations--perhaps the entirety of the book could be translated. That would really help give me and my contemporaries more insight into the world of our ancestors.

Is a Puzzlement - Piecing together the Telefus Tree (Part 2)

In my last post I laid out the puzzle. Three TELEFUS families, each from Khotin, Ukraine. How do the three relate to each other? When I finally felt my internet resources were tapped, a few of the descendants of these families decided to hire a researcher in Europe. I've had success in the past this way, but only when the archivist was recommended. The researcher is based in Chişinău, Moldova, where some 19th century census records for Khotin are archived. (If you'd like a recommendation for this researcher, please contact me directly).

The archivist in Moldova found records for Telefus in the 1848, 1854, and 1874 censuses and revisions! Information about the censuses can be found here. The censuses were incomplete, often ignored female family members, and are known to have been inaccurate. Still, they are records, and I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Image from the 1854 revision of the Khotin census. Record for TELEFUS

From these records - plus some likely related records at JewishGen - I was able to piece together two 19th century TELEFUS families (below). The names in the first family below correspond to my family (my grandfather's Hebrew name was "Shemarya," and so is mine - an uncommon name to be sure), but the dates don't match up. The problem is that the information gathered in US records only goes back to the 1880s and 1890s, and these records stop in the 1870s. Vital records from 1880 - 1900 would help us make the connections among the current families and the 18th century records, but those records seem to be missing. Maybe DNA testing would shed some light on the connections. For example, my great-grandfather was Itzak TELEFUS (#20), the son of Chaim Hirsh TELEFUS (#41). And there is a father/son pair named Izak TELEFUS and Haim Hirsh TELEFUS below (#226 & #231). But the age difference between the two Izaks is 20 years! That is too wide to be a simple error.

So, for now, this is a wall. I'm not sure it is a genealogical brick wall; hopefully it's one we may be able to climb one day. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

19th Century TELEFUS Family 1

Haim Telefus (204), d. before 1848

+Pesea (--?--) (205), d. between 1848 and 1854

├── Shmaria Telefus (220), b. 1789, d. 1848

│ +Ruhlea (--?--) (221), d. before 1854

│ ├── Aron Telefus (224), b. 1817

│ │ +Ester (--?--) (225), b. 1816

│ │ ├── Feiga Telefus (230), d. before 1854

│ │ ├── Hana Telefus (228), b. 1839

│ │ ├── Sura Telefus (229), b. 1840

│ │ ├── Haim Hersh Telefus (226), b. 1850

│ │ │ +unknown spouse

│ │ │ └── Izik Telefus (231), b. 1872

│ │ ├── Mordco Telefus (227), b. 1852

│ │ ├── Shmary Telefus (232), b. 1854

│ │ └── Srul Telefus (233), b. 1862

│ └── Mendel Telefus (222), b. 1833

│ +Perla (--?--) (223), b. 1836

│ └── Shmary Telefus (234), b. 1855

├── Yos Telefus (206), b. circa 1803

│ +Zlata (--?--) (207), b. 1823

│ ├── Yanckel Telefus (211), b. 1826

│ │ +Etea (--?--) (212), b. 1829

│ │ ├── Haim Telefus (235), b. 1850

│ │ │ +unknown spouse

│ │ │ └── Shleoma Duvid Telefus (236), b. 1868

│ │ ├── Hessel Telefus (237), b. 1855

│ │ └── Azril Telefus (238), b. 1867

│ ├── Manoil Telefus (208), b. 1834

│ ├── Ezra Telefus (209), b. 1844

│ └── Shleoma Telefus (210), b. 1849

└── Ghetsel Telefus (213), b. 1805, d. 1848

+Hantsea (--?--) (214), b. 1815

├── Haim Telefus (215), b. 1836

├── Leiia Telefus (217), b. 1838

├── Menea Telefus (218), b. 1840

├── Sheila Telefus (219), b. 1844

└── Yanckel Telefus (216), b. 1845

19th Century TELEFUS Family 2

Hasckel Telefus (239), b. before 1777, d. before 1848

+unknown spouse

└── Froim Telefus (240), b. 1795

+Reiza (--?--) (241), b. 1795

├── Nehama Telefus (243)

└── Itsko Telefus (242), b. 1831

+Tsiva (--?--) (244), b. 1831

├── Haia Telefus (245), b. 1850

├── Mendel Telefus (246), b. 1850

│ +unknown spouse

│ └── Ghershko Telefus (247), b. 1871

└── Froim Telefus (248), b. 1869

Is a Puzzlement - Piecing together the Telefus Tree (Part 1)

My mother's father was a TELEFUS. Well, maybe technically it was his father who was a TELEFUS, since the name was changed to TELLES when they immigrated to New York from Chotyn, Bessarabia - now Khotin, Ukraine. Since starting this family history research, I've discovered quite a bit about my family, including reconnecting with the family of my great-grandfather's brother in Israel after a 40+ year separation.

TELEFUS is a funny name. According to the authoritative source, Beider's Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, TELEFUS means "Telefus (common in Khotin; Kamenets) N: see Terfus. N: from `talepus' [Yiddish] big-bellied person." Or maybe it means "Tarfus: from `tarfu' [Hebrew] food forbidden by Jewish law." (Note: I have not checked the most recent revised edition. My information is from the first edition). Either way, the description is apt for me these days, but I digress. Over the years, I've sought out anyone I could find with the TELEFUS surname, and they all seem to have a Khotin connection. I've always assumed that we are all simply related, but couldn't see exactly how to discover this relationship.

Looking through US census, immigration, naturalization, and vital records - and the family stories of those I've discovered with TELEFUS connections, I've identified three major families in the US. I've tried to remove the information for any living family members for privacy considerations. Incidentally, my family is "Telefus Family 1." The numbers in parentheses are index numbers to keep things straight for discussion.

So, the question is, how are these three families related? In my next post, I'll share the results of research by an archivist in Moldova - research that revealed more questions than answers.

Telefus Family 1

Chiam Hirsh Telefus (41), b. at Bessarabia, Ukraine, d. after 1909 at Bessarabia, Ukraine

+Mary Cohen (69), m. before 1865

├── Rachel Telefus (70), b. circa 1865

│ +(--?--) Marcus (71)

│ └── Bluma Marcus (72), b. 1897

└── Sheava Telefus (44), b. c 1873, d. 1955

+Aron Fisherman (46), b. c 1870

├── Louis Fisherman (47), b. 1894

│ +Sadie (--?--) (65), b. 1901, d. 1929 at NY

│ +Rose (--?--) (68)

├── Minnie Fisherman (52), b. 1898 , d. 1987

│ +Melvin Presser (53), b. 1903, d. 1988 at FL

├── Anne Fisherman (51), b. 1901, d. 1984

└── Mickey Fisherman (49), b. 1902

+Roberta (--?--) (50)

+Leah Berenstein (58), m. circa 1875

├── (--?--) Telles (45),

├── Pesach Telefus (42), b. at Bessarabia, Ukraine, d. at Isreal

├── Anna Telefus (43), b. 1887, d. 1968 at NY

│ +Chaim Telefus (67), b. 1887, d. 1922 at NY

│ +Max Lichtenstein (66), b. 1877 at Ukraine,, d. 1961

└── Isador Telles (20), b. 1891 at Bessarabia, Ukraine, d. 1951

+Sarah Birnberg (21), b. 1893, m. 1913 at NY, , d. 1965

├── Meyer Jack Telles (22), b. 1913, d. 2003 at CA

│ +Helan Konsky (23), b. 1915, m. 1936, d. 1994

├── Sam Telles (6), b. 1917, d. 1972 at NY,

│ +

└── Harris Telles (31), b. 1923, d. 2002 at TX

+

Telefus Family 2

Chiam Telefus (116), b. before 1862, d. between 1898 and 1910 at Bessarabia, Ukraine

+Sarah (--?--) (115), b. 1858 at Ukraine, d. 1923 at NY

├── Rachel Telefus (134)

├── Boruch Telefus (133), b. circa 1878 d. circa 1942 at Ukraine

├── Joseph Telefore (123), b. 1880 at Ukraine

│ +Sadie (--?--) (129), b. 1893 at Ukraine

│ +unknown spouse

│ ├── Lyman Telefore (124), b. 1903 at Ukraine

│ ├── Annie Telefore (125), b. 1907 at NY

│ ├── Yetta Telefore (126), b. 1910 at NY

│ ├── Jacob Telefore (127), b. 1911 at NY

│ └── Louis Telefore (128), b. 1913 at NY

├── Benjamin Telefus (96), b. 1885 at Ukraine

│ +Yetta (--?--) (97), b. 1887 at Ukraine, m. 1904

│ ├── Sam Telefus (98), b. 1906 at NY

│ ├── Harry Telefus (99), b. 1908 at NY

│ ├── Ethel Telefus (100), b. 1909 at NY

│ ├── Lillian Telefus (120), b. 1911 at NY

│ ├── Morris Telefus (121), b. 1915 at NY

│ └── Jacob Telefus (122), b. 1918 at NY

├── Nathan Telefus (117), b. 1888 at Ukraine

├── Jennie Telefus (118), b. 1890

└── Julius Telefus (119), b. 1898

Telefus Family 3

Yitzchak Telefus (87)

+Ida Hamburger (203)

└── Joseph Tellis (88), b. between 1879 and 1881, d. 1947

+Anna Wasserman (89), b. 1886, m. 1904, d. 1948

├── Lewis Tellis (94), b. 1905, d. 1953

│ +Mae Glucha (155), m. 1927

├── Ada Tellis (93), b. 1907, d. 1963

│ +Morris Gandelman (156)

├── Lena Tellis (91), b. 1911 at NY

│ +Jerry Grenadier (160)

├── Harry Tellis (90), b. 1914 at NY, d. 1962

│ +Mary (--?--) (163)

└── Albert Tellis (92), b. 1916 at NY, d. 1959

+Rose (--?--) (166)

+unknown spouse

├── Sam Tellis (101), b. 1885, d. 1950

│ +Lena Kashlinsky (102), b. 1890, m. 1909, d. 1961

│ ├── Dianah Tellis (180)

│ │ +Mel Bornstein (181)

│ ├── Frank Tellis (173)

│ │ +Mildred (--?--) (174), m. 1947

│ ├── Irma Tellis (176), d. 1950

│ │ +Murray Brauer (177)

│ ├── Edward Tellis (184), d. 1959

│ │ +Belle (--?--) (185)

│ └── Max Tellis (103), b. 1910 at NY, d. 1961

│ +Fay Benowitz (189), b. 1910, d. 1972

├── Efriam Asher Telefus (74), b. before 1890 at Bessarabia, Ukraine

│ +Hinde (--?--) (75)

│ ├── Leika Telefus (81)

│ ├── Rubin Telefus (76), b. at Bessarabia, Ukraine

│ └── Chana Telefus (80), b. circa 1901

│ +Jacob Gandelman (82), b. 1900, m. circa 1924 at NY

└── Louis Tellis (104), b. 1891

+Yetta (--?--) (130), b. 1887

├── Benjamin Tellis (131), b. 1913 at NY

└── Harry Tellis (132), b. 1918 at NY