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Re: Surname info/origin

LithuanianGenealogy  (View posts) Posted: 5 May 2012 9:50PM GMT
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As has been noted, Lithuanian does not use the letter "w" so the surname would begin not with "w" but with "v". Lithuanian also does not use the letter "x" but "ks" instead, so Alexander is Aleksandras in Lithuanian. If you look at a city directory for DuBois you might find alternative spellings. I cannot find any listing in the online phone book for Lithuania for any surname beginning "Valint-" with a "k" in it.

You might try obtaining his church marriage record which was probably made by a Lithuanian priest and might therefore have a more definitive lead on the surname as well as his birth place.

John Peters
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
VWallace108 5 May 2012 4:10PM GMT 
tsadausk 5 May 2012 6:58PM GMT 
VWallace108 5 May 2012 8:08PM GMT 
LithuanianGen... 5 May 2012 9:50PM GMT 
   

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