Richie C.'s Comments

Hi Ritchie:

Thank you for the welcoming note. I appreciate it.

It's a good feeling to join a group that allows me to learn more about my heritage.

Have a good day.

Best and aciu,
Gerry

Aciu labai for the birthday greetings!

Sandy

Hi, sorry I called you John! I'm wanting to know if there is a record that tells the boundaries as they changed during the 1800's. My people are from St. Petersburg, but we have record of them also being in Latvia. As I'm sure you know, as borders fluctuated so did where the info need to be recorded. Thank you ~ Rene'

Hi Richie, Thanks for providing such a great service. I've already benefited from your advice by using the Lithuanian town names spreadsheet to find alternate names for my ancestors' birthplaces. Hoping to spend a little time doing more research while I'm snowed in this weekend.

The Rose family Max, Bernard, Anne, Joseph, came from Lithuania . Max, Bernard went to S. Africa and went into the ostrich business
Joseph and Anne went to the US. Joseph open a furniture store in Long Island City.

Could be as far as I know my great grandfather left Lithuania with 2 brothers when they arrived in I believe to be Hull England my great grandfather came up to the North East of England where I still live , one of his brothers travelled down to the South of England and the other boarded a ship to America. This must have been around 1900 as my great grandfather married an English girl Maria Swinnerton in 1905. Unfortunately I don t know the names of his brothers. I may know a little more about where they originated for when I receive a copy of their marriage certificate, registry offices here are usually pretty quick.

Thanks for inviting me to join.

Im digging around for info so no doubt ill have questions soon and then youll wish you never invited me to join.

thanks again

linda

Thank you Richie C. My family was from Kraysk/Kraisk, Vileika/Vilna, now part of Belarus. I'm not sure if there would be any information in Lithuanian records.
What are your thoughts about that?
Liz Ruderman Miller

Hi John, My people are from Lithuania or Latvia or Russia. Sometimes records were kept in different places. How can I find out when they were kept where in order to check them? My family names are Blumberg, Jacobson and Jacobs.
Thank you.

Hello Richie,
from yopur list of surnames I understand you have both Lithuanian and Scottish roots. This is of my utmost interest, but probably for the reasons of deep ancestry, which cannot be traced back on paper, but which is written in our genome. With regard to my paper trail, my paternal line started in 1455 when a certain Piotrasz Nieswicki was granted with the estate of Pobikrowy in Podlasie Province by the Grand-Duke of Lithuania, Kazimierz. Pobikrowy is now Pobikry close to Drohiczyn on Bug River, Belarus frontier. I am interested by the origins of Piotrasz and of Nieswicki family. They came probably from Volhynia, which is in the present territory of the Western Ukraine (towns of Luck, Kowel). As there's no certain record of Nieswicki prior to the 15th c., I made a y-DNA test and the results have been rather surprising. My haplogroup is I1* and my closest matches go to Anglo-Norman families like Harris, Hamilton, Frame, Warren, Whitehead etc. Only recently, I had a rather close match with Kann from Estonia. Should you feel that this can fit to your quest, I go for it.

All the best
and a verry happy New Year.

Lech Konrad

I have read where many researchers are having a problem with the archives in Vilnius. They must remember that everything is done by hand--one page at a time. And only the archive staff can work the books. That is why the long waiting time. The paying is done to an account at a bank. When I was in Vilnius this year I had to pay at their bank before getting my document. If there are many members of your family to research I suggest a private researcher. I did this for my Father's side of the family. And am very glad to have gone this route. If anyone wishes her info I'd be glad to share it. And you will not be dissapointed in her efforts.
Jurgis
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I'll take a look at the group.
Thanks,
Quan

Thanks Richie. I work on my genealogy in spurts. Right now I'm in a lull, but I keep tabs on all the different boards, which is how I got to this site,thanks to you. I have my tree posted on the My Heritage site. I have over 500 people in the tree, but a lot of them are from my husband's side of the family. And I was lucky enough to have a Reynolds family book which take his mother's family back to England.

My family is 100% Lithuanian and I have very few relatives here in the US. I correspond on aregular basis with one cousin and sporadically with a couple of others

I went to Lithuania 5 years ago looking for myfather's family, because when my younger brother dies, so will that particular branch of the tree because neither of my brothers married and had families. I have found a few people with my surname here in the US, but they have not answered my inquiries as to relationship.

thanks again for your help

I thought that is where I was, on the Lithuanian part of the site. I haven't spent any time really investigating where everything is yet.

My DELANEYs joined many francophone Acadians on the Havre-aux-Maisons island in Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada. They came from Ireland. Some DELANEYs were in the lobster industry.

I think I missed his post. Can you fill me in?

Yes, I am a member. I think you have helped me in the past - if you are Rich C.

Thanks Richie, This is great - It will really help me.

Linda

Thank you, I am excited to check it out. I am working on a Shilkis or Shilaikis line i believe from Soloki, Lithuania. I have naturalization papers and ship records but everything is so vague. We have always know it as Shilkis but I believe that the name was changed or at least the spelling somewhere along the way.