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is the border that our family story refers to i m wondering if you wouldn t mind contacting me through my gmail account so i can give more detail and ask some more personal questions many many thanks brenda augustinas žemaitis september 22nd 2013 21 27 i have contacted you by e mail debbie casey august 29th 2013 22 53 labas i am very much interested in the area of beinoraiciai also known as beinoraiciu my grandfather was born there in1892 during that time what was the land like what would people have done for a living what would of made my grandfather leave there in 1913 reply augustinas žemaitis august 30th 2013 14 41 hello for introduction i suggest reading our page on the lithuanian history click here especially the chapters on 1795 1918 russian imperial rule and 1918 1940 independence to better understand the era and its aspirations basically russians decided to leave lithuania as an undeveloped agricultural land due to its border proximity at the time your grandfather was born the lithuanian language was still banned and catholics persecuted by the russian government but by 1904 it was forced to soften these policies by 1913 independence movement was already in a full swing although only world war 1 allowed to finally win freedom which was after 1913 perhaps your grandfather would have participated in pro lithuanian protests in the usa 1918 as many lithuanian americans did at the time click here for one picture of such protest most lithuanians of 1910s were peasants and would grow food for living beinoraičiai village the one near pakruojis i assume was not much different from the major part of rural lithuania reply debbie casey august 30th 2013 22 44 labas thank you so much the articles have helped me so much to understand lithuanian history my grandfather came to the us and joined the army and went back and fought for the lithuanians in aug of 2012 i traveled to beinoraicai it is a beautiful part of lithuania so i would guess that it is pretty much like it was when he lived there i love your website so happy to have found it reply augustinas žemaitis september 1st 2013 23 08 thank you lithuanian nature indeed still looks the same the people their aspirations and lifestyle differ however back in 1910s nearly all lithuanians who live in lithuania were peasants villagers deeply religious had many children and would make many things some clothes furniture inside family rather than buy as russia left lithuania undeveloped choosing an urban life meant emigration whether to riga st petersburg or chicago many emigrants of that era would however return and invest their money into land to inherit the father s land and expand it used to be the aspiration for many today it is different with urban life being more prestigious and villagers viewed in dismay by some the youth leave the villages hoping never to return like in the usa technology was one of the drives for this change however another drive was the soviet occupation when nearly all land was nationalized and the land owning peasants killed or expelled religion attacked urbanization rate increased from 30 to 70 percent as more emphasis was put on heavy industry while the productivity of agriculture suffered as people no longer a bond to the land when it was not even theirs some would get addicted to alcohol which is still a problem in villages after independence restoration the land was returned to descendants however many of them now live elsewhere and are no longer farmers therefore they sell or rent the land this soviet era also greatly villages architecturally with many old homes destroyed and new ones built on standard plain designs including apartment blocks which never previously existed in villages reply jack klim october 7th 2013 11 14 i have enjoyed your website very much it is quite interesting to read the history and how it has influenced what is occuring today i am only begining to research my lithuanian grandparents emingration to chicago in 1912 i am looking for possible directed readings specifically coverings the economy of lithuania 1890 to 1912 i am trying to determine possible motiviation factors for their emigration my grandfather was a construction engineer according to family lore and founded a construction company shortly after arriving in chicago reply augustinas žemaitis october 8th 2013 16 56 thank you i explain the economic situation at the time in answers above to debbie cassey also the articles on the history of lithuania especially the part the rule of russian empire in lithuania and lithuanian americans may be useful reply debbie casey february 1st 2014 15 01 thank you so much for your help i was able to contact the lithuanian archives hopefully they will be able to find some information for me aciu reply joe newman april 10th 2014 22 02 what a fascinating website really inspired me to visit vilnius reply augustinas žemaitis april 11th 2014 06 12 thank you i hope you will enjoy vilnius reply paul alencikas july 8th 2014 14 08 great site i love lithuania all my people are from the panevezys area i think your site is the best for lithuania no bs no hype just pertinent information your s is my default site for all things lithuanian please keep up the good work i know it s not easy keeping up a site this informative with much appreciation paul alencikas reply augustinas žemaitis july 8th 2014 19 49 thank you i m glad it helps reply debbie casey august 13th 2014 01 25 labas i am reading a book on genealogy and it talks about first name patterns in scotland and italy i was wondering if you know of a pattern in the lithuanian culture so many of my family names repeat this could help in my research 1st son father s father 2nd son mother s father 3rd son father 4th son father s brother 1st daughter mother s mother 2nd daughter father s mother 3rd daughter mother 4th daughter mother s sister acui reply augustinas žemaitis august 13th 2014 06 58 hello to my knowledge there weren t such all encompassing traditions in lithuania instead tradition depended on family and location one quite popular historic tradition but never universal would be to name a child after one of the grandparents in some families one of the sons may have been traditionally named after father reply debbie casey august 13th 2014 23 20 labas thank you for clearing that up for me do you know of any other way than going through the natiional archives to find information on families i have worked with them for a few years now and the person who i am working with is not very helpfull the people in the past would ask questions and they would find the information for me this person wants exact dates and places if i had that information i would not be asking should i ask for a new person or is there any other recourse i can take acui you have been so helpful thank you again reply augustinas žemaitis august 15th 2014 08 50 thank you of course you can try to ask to contact another person whether this will succeed i don t know a lot depends on institution soviet work ethics are still quite common in the state institutions under the soviet occupation career prospects were largely independent of merit or work results so the common work culture became to dodge as much work as possible unless e g a friend asked to do it that said not every state institution employee is like that but what you told in the recent post reminds me of this situation by the way i am a lawyer in lithuanian bar association so if you d need legal services you can use our law firm we could contact the archives in lithuanian language in official way perhaps the communication in lithuanian will be more fruitful and would be received by different employees the last time i called state archives the person was helpful but of course there are many employees if you are interested contact me by e mail augustinas zemaitis gmail com of course there is never a guarantee that particular information will be in the archives some wooden churches have burnt down destroying the birth and marriage records and so on reply debbie casey august 19th 2014 19 07 labas augustinas what you mentioned in your blog sounds exactly like what is happening with my requests thank you very much for your offer of help i am going to gather all my information on my family and i will contact your office acui debbie reply tomas slekaitis august 17th 2023 15 54 i have a cousin in vilnius who is a consulting geneologist vilus botyrius vilius botyr gmail com tell him tom sent you reply mary walukas ontkush november 1st 2014 21 17 i would like to learn the language and track my dad s parents all are dead now so where can i start my parents divorced when i was a toddler then never saw my dad much after thx reply augustinas žemaitis november 1st 2014 21 53 it is the best to learn as much as you could from what you have that is from live people who remember these dead people and documents things you may find at your home or their home the names places of birth times of birth times of marriage spouse names of your father s relatives etc are especially useful with this info one could search the archives as for the language various diaspora institutions offer courses of lithuanian language or may help you find a teacher contact the nearest lithuanian organization the local chapter of lithuanian community etc global true lithuania website may help you find local lithuaian institutions reply laimutis degutis december 6th 2014 17 05 thank augustinas for your hard work and dedication 1 comment i want to make to help some of those researching their relatives as you have mentioned get as much actual documentation as possible but there is a very large disappointing factor that will sometimes come to bear those stories you heard thru your childhood many years ago may have been just an embellishment and not the actual truth reply harry chandler january 28th 2015 00 44 i found your website and am a consistent user my maternal grandparents were from lithuania and migrated in 1908 and 1910 my wife and i visited for 8 days in september and we left promising to return thanks for your website it reminds us of what we saw and hope to at a future time reply augustinas žemaitis january 28th 2015 11 32 thank you i m glad it helped reply sherri tran april 24th 2015 15 56 my great great grandmother s last name was stokus is that a lithuanian last name i was told she came to the us from lithuania also i was given butkas as a last name too are either of these lithuanian thank you reply augustinas žemaitis april 24th 2015 16 20 butkas surname does not exist in lithuania however surname butkus does so maybe your forefathers had their last name altered with butkus the original version the original version may also have been butkevičius as it was popular to drop polish inspired long endings and change them by short lithuanian ones instead such as as there are people with surname stokus in lithuania although its rare reply laurie lucking may 14th 2015 15 45 i am trying to find out more about my great and great great grandparents who were born in lithuania my great grandmother was named susannah shemukenas and she was the daughter of anna vedderis i do not have her father s name she was born in a place called ezushula which i cannot find on a map or on the internet susannah married a man named joesph ciroski but i believe that is the polish version of his surname they immigrated to the usa in 1902 through the port of riga reply augustinas žemaitis may 14th 2015 20 55 i think the original names may be zuzana šimukėnaitė or šimukėnienė if married read about lithuanian female surname variants here ona viederytė or viederienė juozapas cirockis not sure about the surname though ezushula sounds like ažušiliai there are several so named villages reply amanda fannon june 22nd 2015 16 22 i can help you my great grandparents were susannah shemukenas and josef cerosky my great great grandmother was anna vedderis we are cousins please contact me aafannon gmail com reply aaron crosby march 3rd 2017 23 53 i am their great grandson aaron reply laurie lucking may 15th 2015 13 16 thank you this is very helpful reply nancy dallas may 21st 2015 16 38 what a great website we will be visiting lithuania in september and would love to meet up with relatives do you have a recommendation of a specific researcher at the state archives with contact information my grandmother stephania asporas came from birzai around 1907 thank you for your help reply augustinas žemaitis may 22nd 2015 08 07 thanks usually the state archives should be contacted directly as an institution and they can do a search for a fee however we may provide the services of 1 contacting the archives in lithuanian 2 consulting on what documents will be needed 3 reconstructing the likely information before the archive search as for example city town and personal names are often changed in us documents so knowledge of lithuanian is needed to guess what were the original names 4 other consulting regarding what where and when to search if needed you may contact at tour baltic gmail com reply debbie smith june 23rd 2015 00 57 hello my name is debbie smith i am living in hope that i may find my great grandfathers family his name was john august herman boyer the spelling of boyer over the years has altered i believe but still unsure of original spelling borya boyar the only details that i have are these john august herman boyer spelling variations born 1849 unknown as to where born was last known in memel now klaipedia in c1874 when he left and emigrated overseas he finally arrived in new zealand c1874 1875 all i know is that his father no known name was a bricklayer this was noted on j a h boyer s death cert there is no mothers or fathers names mentioned anywhere in any documents nor do they offer up any other information about locations or siblings i am sadly at a loss and there is no other recourse here for me hence i am writing in hope of absolutely any assistance please i was fortunate to have a fellow friend search on ancestry and below is all she could tell me quote i can t find anything for him particularly but when i searched borya in the lithuanian records it turned up several bauers all from kaunas also some boyars again from kaunas a few from vilnius but not many klaipėda is coastal so that may have been the point of embarkation rather than where he lived unquote i would very much appreciate any assistance going forward and so grateful for your time please many many thanks in advance kindest regards debbie s smith reply augustinas žemaitis july 7th 2015 00 31 hi by search on ancestry do you mean ancestry com in general archive search would be more definite as far from everything is available online especially from outside usa that said the situation is not that easy as very little is known klaipėda may be an anchor however as i understand it is not known how much time he spent there whether years or a day as klaipėda was back 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