Re: [cybalist] Deciphering surnames

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From: "Gerry Reinhart-Waller" <waluk@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [cybalist] Deciphering surnames


The name is of Belarusian origin, but used in Poland as
well. Anyway, before the war the borders were not where they
are now. Vilnius was temporarily incorporated into Poland,
for example, and Polish was the official language there. The
spelling your family used is purely Polish.

Piotr

> This does get to be a bit confusing. You're saying that
the name on my
> parents wedding certificate from the Polish church is the
non
> Anglicanized form of Walukevich, that is, Walukiewicz.
Does this mean
> that the name Walukevich is Polish?
>
> Gerry
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