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I had no idea...but group members are educating me! Africa (ok, South Africa) might have led to migration elsewhere....or not. Please discuss this here.

Contact information for the Lithuanian Consulates in S. Africa:
Lithuania Honorary Consulate , South Africa
1st Floor, Killarney Mall, 60 Riviera Road
PO Box 1737
Postal Code:
2193
Kllarney
Johanesburg
South Africa
Phone:
+27-11-4863660
Fax:
+27-11-4863650
Email:
garb_joff@global.co.za

Lithuania Honorary Consulate , South Africa
8th Floor, 5 St George's Mall
PO Box 596
Postal Code:
8000
Cape Town
South Africa
Phone:
+27-21-4069208
Fax:
+27-21-4197411
Email:
lietuvos@iafrica.com

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My grandfather first left Lithuania for South Africa (Johannesburg). He later migrated via Southhampton, England to the U.S. arriving at Ellis Island in New York and settling in Houston, TX. Family remained in South Africa. My wife's family also immigrated from Lithuania to Africa, some becoming farmers in Rhodeia/Zimbabwe.
Max,
With no personal connection at all, I think I could get so caught up in your family history!!
my great uncle, Max Rose, settled in Oudshoorn south africa and raised ostriches.
I can say that i HAVE eaten an ostrich burger!
my grandfather, Solomon Nathan Kanterowitz (which is how he himself spelled it), went to Johannesburg from Kovno in the 1890s, before buying a hotel in the Southern Cape (Garden Route) coastal town of Mosselbaai in the 1920s> Later he bacame Mayor of Mosselbaai, before moving to Cape Town in the 1930s, eventually dying there in the early 1960s.
Very interesting, Michael. Were you able to trace his family back within Lithuania? There are still Kantaravicius in Lithuania today (and not too many of them, it seems), but I don't know if that's just the Catholic spelling.

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