The root of the Briss Family tree is our common ancestors, the progenitors of the entire family:

YISRAEL and SHEINE ESTHER BRIS of Lithuania.

WE ARE ALL DESCENDED FROM THESE TWO.

Yisrael and Sheine Esther had at least four children. (There may have been more than four children, but these are the four we know about.)

CHANA MERE

JEHUDAH MENASHA

AVRAM NOTTE

ELIASH PINCHUS

These four children created four major family branches. Each of these four branches is addressed in one of the following sections.

If you are a Briss cousin, click on a portrait to visit that family branch and directory.

The directory is formatted as a left-to-right waterfall. The generations are color-coded:
red (mostly the generation which fought WWII),
green (mostly the Baby Boomers),
blue (mostly Generation X), and
purple (mostly the generation being born now).

CHANA MERE BRISS married HIRSH ISRAEL MALER and they had five children:

CHAIM YITZCHAK (Isaac) m. Annie Briss

YANKEL MENASHA Never married; had no children

CHAIKA (Ida) m. Max Annis

SORA LEIA (Sarah) m. Morris Briss; m. Louis Plotkin after Morris died

HENA (Annie) m. David Davidson

From those five came the following family branches:

Annis, Davidson, Fearer, Kornetsky, Miller, Plotkin, Stein.

JEHUDAH MENASHA BRISS married CHAIA ITA MAAS and they had nine children:

HODA MERE (Hannah) m. Israel Posvoletzky	CHANA FRUMA (Annie) m. Isaac Miller	SARA DVORAH who died at 16 and left no children	YITZCHAK YAAKOV (Isaac) m. Massah Resnekowitz. They had one son, Wolf, who had no children.	TZIPPA ELLA m. Morris Hotz
OVSEY MOVSHA (Morris) m. Sarah Miller but died at 29 and left no children	RISHKE (Rose) m. Isadore Annis	BUNKE FAIGIE (Fannie) m. Samuel Briss	YISRAEL HIRSH (Harry) m. Anna Adler

From those nine came the following family branches:

Annis, Bickelman, Borstel, Briss, Cohen, Goldman, Goodliss, Herman, Hotz, Lipsitz, Milgram, Miller, Poswell, Promisel, Rubenstein, Schwartz, Solin, Stein.

AVRAM NOTTE SKAIST married FEIGE BAT ZUNDEL and they had seven children:

LAZAR Presumed to have died in 1941	MALKAH (Molly) m. David Wolk	SCHOLEM MENDEL (Sam) m. Fannie Briss	ZUNDEL m. Meri Cohen Perished with wife and three children in 1941
YENTEL Presumed to have died with son in 1941	MEISHE AVRAM ITZCHAK (Abraham) m. Lottie Milner	LABEL (Louis) m. Bessie Higer

From those seven came the following family branches:

Borstel, Briss, Green, Hendler, Josset, Milgram, Porter, Rubenstein, Segal, Skaist, Wolpert.

ELIASH PINCHUS BRISS married RIVKA MIRVISH and they had two children:

DAVID MENDEL m. Zelda Kavnat

SONIA ESTHER m. Samuel Sadur

From those two came the following family branches:

Bruss, Koonin, Levin, Lewinsky, Nadelman, Schwarz.

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