My great-grandparents were Charles and Mary (Americanized names) Sussman, from Galaecia. They were Jewish. Their children were David, my grandfather, Yetta, and another brother who left the family and was supposed to have gone to California. They lived in the Brooklyn area in the early 1900s. David married my grandmother, Shirley Wallach, on July 1, 1928, and had one child, Ina Sussman Miller, my mother.