From: Marvin MILLIS [Canada]
To: Lucian Millis [Israel]
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001

Hi Lucian,

It is quite a long story as to how I learned about the North Carolina Millis family.

At the time I began my research in 1991, I received replies from five persons in the UK. Shortly thereafter, two of these sent me promotional letters from a company selling volumes titled "The World Book of Millises" [they do this for thousands of surnames]. They professed to have a Millis promotional representative in the US (I think that was made up). Anyway, I found a few US directories in a small public library and made a general query to those Millises I noted.

Out of 15 only one replied. He said he had a copy of a privately printed Millis genealogy [1920s & 1944 by Fred Millis - Indiana] which showed a coat-of-arms. He xeroxed the Millis pages for me.

Some time later I contacted someone who had copied the Millis pages from the Gray book. I could see that it was the same family. The genealogist who produced the Gray book questioned the authenticity of the genealogy link to the English Milles family.
It was while researching other biographical volumes in the Vancouver main library that I found the English Milles family that this fellow had claimed as ancestors.

[!] The list of family didn't allow [dates wouldn't jibe] for a family member who went to North Carolina. To add further insult - the coat-of-arms was for the artist Sir John Everett Millais!

I have no connection to the North Carolina family.

After you have received my letter there will be more that you will want to query. Actually, you should consider revising your posted data after you see that letter.

Cheers,
Marvin [Marvin MILLIS - Canada]

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