Our focus here is on those who used the spelling Cirlin.
Typically the ancestry is Russian Jewish (in the sense of the Russian Empire) and the name has been transcribed in a varity of alphabets as Cirlin, Cyrlin, Sirlin, Zirlin, and Zyrlin in Ellis Island records, as Tzirlin in Hebrew or Yiddish records, and as Tsirlin in Russian sources (or in some cases, Chirlin.
Some Cirlincione family members of Italian descent also adopted that surname, as well as some of Irish extraction (possibly transcription errors).
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There are a large number of entries for Cirlin's at Ellis Island. In the transcriptions entered into the database, many of these have been misread by the transcribers. See the full list of common variants. Generally these entries correspond to Tsirlin in the cyrillic alphabet, Tzirlin in Yiddish, and the use of Cirlin reflects Polish usage.
According to Aaron Ginzburg, there are 200+ descendants of a Cirlin from Parafianov, Belarus (close to Dokshitzy).
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Sometime in the mid 19th century, a male Cirlin and his wife had at least two children ...
The first child had at least one child,
and his child, Haya Cirlin, married Rafel Ginzburg. The second known child of that original Cirlin was named Avraham Anshel Cirlin. Avraham Anshel had two known children. The older child, Ester Cirlin, married Samuel Gejdenson. One of their children, Shlomo, survived the holocaust and made his way to the USA after the war. Shlomo was the sole survivor from this branch and has named four more lost family members by submitting pages of testimony to Yad Vashem. His son, Sam Gejdenson, was a United States congressman from Connecticut for 19 years during the 1980s and 90s, and was ranking member of the House Foreign Relations Committee. Sam was able to visit Dokshitz in the 1990s and thank the people who hid his father. |
Sources include Ellis Island immigration forms, Castle Garden immigration records, NY marriage records, CA death records.
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