FROM THE FAMILY RECORD
Jake Milgrom
Historian · musician · producer
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A PERSONAL HISTORYNORTH CAROLINA · & BEYOND
Biography & family record
Jake
Milgrom.
Historian. Musician. Producer.
I.
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family tree
The person
History is the through-line.
Music is the daily practice.
Jake Milgrom is an independent historian, musician and producer in North Carolina. His work moves between historical research, recording, live sound, and the systems behind a performance.
This family record places that work in a longer story: physicians and makers, farmers and shopkeepers, military service, public office, art, and the keeping of family memory.
family tree
II. / THE FAMILY RECORDMany branches.
Many branches.
One family story.
From the Carolinas to Dresden,
Flensburg, and Hong Kong.
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AN ILLUSTRATED PEDIGREE
The family of Jake Milgrom
Battle · Marriott · Milgrom · Witzke · Belk · Hutchinson
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The same people, arranged from earlier to later generations.
THE FAMILY PEDIGREE
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PORTRAITS IN THE RECORD
Faces preserved in the family album and the historical record.
III. / A FEW LIVES IN THE RECORDPeople, before
People, before
they were ancestors.
Work, places, and the things
people chose to keep.
Hattie Elizabeth
Moore Witzke
Artist, poet, collector, genealogist, and boutique owner. Her life brought together making things, remembering people, and traveling far beyond home.
Moritz
von Milgrom
A German-born jeweler and optometrist who made his home in North Carolina. His American records preserve changing spellings, a marriage, and a life in skilled commerce.
William Pippen
Milgrom
Air Force service, financial systems, a software company, property, and charitable giving. His working life connected several different kinds of organization.
IV. / THE FAMILY REGISTERNames in
Names in
the family book.
The wider record includes siblings,
spouses, cousins, and earlier generations.
87 entries in the working register
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Some people are known only by a partial name. Individual entries retain the distinction between published records, family knowledge, and compiled family trees.
V. / PROVENANCEA family record,
A family record,
with its sources.
The pedigree draws on obituaries, university archives, original census records, historical publications, and compiled genealogies. Family-confirmed relationships are included with their source identified. Earlier compiled links remain distinguishable in the chart.
Some questions remain open. The research notes preserve those questions separately from the drawn pedigree.
WORKING EDITION / OCTOBER 2026Open research notes 31 entries +
These are candidate identities and unfinished connections. Several may refer to people already in the register or to one another.