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What surnames are you interested in researching?: Menkevich
Menkevitch
Savickute
Berankis
Brazauckeine

What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?: Lithuania, Scotland, Australia, America,

What is your level of genealogy knowledge?: Intermediate Family History Researcher

At 10:42am on September 1, 2010, Richie C. said…: Hi Rachel,
Thanks for joining my Lithuanian group.

Your Menkevich name is most likely Menkevičius in it's Lithuanian form. There are only 23 with this name in the Lithuanian phone book (both the male form and the married female form). So you might consider writing letters to those people.

Savickute is a maiden female form of Savickas, though also written as Savickytė. The married female form is Savickienė. Savickas is a pretty common name.

There are no names in the Lithuanian phone directory starting with "Benan..", so we'll have to think more about that one.

I'm certain your Brazauckeine name is the married form of Brazauskas, which should actually be Brazauskienė. For some reason, I've found that England and Scotland always changed the 'sk' to a 'ck'. It happened with my families over there too.

Hope that helps you. Have you checked the Free BMD? The 1901 Census? I don't know when your families arrived in the UK.