I’ve read recently about people who were originally Markowitz or other variations changed their name to Marks.

Consider that records may exist under such an original name.

Best regards,

Jeff Miller
Maryland

Jeff, Markson is also a possibility. There was a large Markson family in the Pilvishok area .Perhaps some of them changed their name to Marks.

For another name to checkout, I have MARCHEWKA which became MARKOWITZ which then became MARCH in my tree. The family is from Poland.