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Kumpis/Lilarikos/Lukosius/Draksos in Kartena, Lithuania/Russia

Saidtherose — 2012-08-26 19:07:40Z

I am searching for information regarding the following family from Kartena, Lithuania/Russia. Some of the members immigrated to Chicago, Ill. in the early 1900's.

IGNATIUS (Ignac or Ignaz) KUMPIS - b. June 1870 in Kartena, Lithuania/Russia. He immigrated to the US around 1903, settling in Chicago. He was the son of IGNAC KUMPIS, who died before 1923 in Kartena. His mother was BARBARA DRAKSOS. IGNATIUS KUMPIS, b. June 1870, married:

PATRICIJA "MAGDALINE" LILARIKOS - b.in Lithuania, d. 25 Feb. 1936 in Kartena, Lithuania/Russia. She did not immigrate to Chicago with her husband, Ignatius and sons. She stayed behind in Kartena, and became a Catholic Nun.

CHILDREN OF IGNATIUS KUMPIS AND PATRICIA "MAGDALINE" LILARIKOS - all born in Kartena, Lithuania/Russia:

PETRONELE KUMPIS - She stayed behind in Kartena with her mother, Patricia "Magdaline" Lilarikos-Kumpis, and her sister, Aldofina Kumpis-Lukosius. It is unknown if she married or not.

ALDOFINA KUMPIS - b. 1891 and d. 1942 in Lithuania, most likely, Kartena. She stayed behind in Lithuania, and married Anthony Lukosius in Kartena, on 15 July, 1923. Her father, Ignatius Kumpis returned to Lithuania for the wedding. He later went back to Chicago.

JOSEF "JOSEPH" KUMPIS - b. Sept. 1896 in Kozceli, Lithuania/Russia. He immigrated to the US, settling in Chicago. He married Leokadia "Leona" Kurtz in Chicago.

FRANK KUMPIS - b. 1896? in Kartena, Lithuania/Russia. He immigrated to Chicago.

JONAS "JOHN" KUMPIS - b. 1902 in Kartena,Lithuania/Russia. He immigrated to Chicago.

The Kumpis family owned property in Kartena,Lithuania/Russia. They were supposedly well educated and possibly owned a flour mill. One of the Kumpis family members may have been a Mayor? Supposedly, the men came to the US to avoid being sent to Siberia, as it is said that the Russians were sending educated men from their area to Siberia. The Kumpis women were going to come to Chicago, but could not bear to leave their native land.

I have several photos of unidentified Kumpis/Lilarikos family members, and would appreciate any help identifying them. Any help regarding their family and history in Lithuania would be most appreciated, as well. There must still be family members in Lithuania, today.

Glebaitis/Janczys/Dykas?

nicoletterh — 2012-08-25 03:09:34Z

I have Lithuanian family that we have heard originally were from Chicago.

Is anyone familiar with the surnames Glebaitis, Janczys, or Dykas? All three have come to a dead end for me in my research and I don't know if there were name changes or variant spellings? Any help is much appreciated!

Re: Looking for people in RUSSIA ( USSR ) - help is here

mswaclaw70 — 2012-06-11 08:16:32Z

Would this information include the immigrants who listed Russian/Lithuanian on records?

Sharon

Arlauskas in Chicago

darkstar54_1 — 2012-04-18 21:33:20Z

My grandfather Dominic Orlowski (Arlauskas) and his brother came from Lithuania in 1900+. His brothers name was Peter married to a Frances. Dominic moved to Texas, Peter to Chicago. Their parents were Petras and Onas left in Lithuania. My grandfather was baptised in Old Zagare church. If there are any relatived of zPeter and Frances, please contact me. Thanks

Re: MARTISZAUSKAS (MARTISAUSKAS) family of Chicago

S_Stemont — 2012-03-12 16:51:14Z

Hi Algis, According to his death record, Kazimir's father was also named Kazimir, and we don't know his mother's name. We do know the family was from Plunge, and Kazimir was a miller or worked in a mill there. Unfortunately, that's all we know.

Martisauskas appears to be a common Lithuanian name. There were other Martisauskas families in Chicago about the same time as ours, but they are not related as far as we know.

Good luck in your searches, and if you find any connection, I'd be delighted to hear.

Re: MARTISZAUSKAS (MARTISAUSKAS) family of Chicago

amartisauskas — 2012-03-12 15:46:16Z

My name is Algis Martisauskas and I was born in Germany in 1946 as my parents were fleeing Lithuania ahead of the Russian front.

I have had quite a bit of research done in Lithuania into the Martisuaskas name and have names of my ancesters going back quite a few generations. The problem is that the trace was not done on all the family members unless they were in my immediate line. Do you have Kazimir's father's or grandfathers name so that I can see if they appear on ly family tree??

Lots of luck in the family search. If you r4eally look, there are quite a few Martisauksai in the US and I have no idea at this time if any of us are related in the long ago past.

Re: Looking for family name Guices-this is probably spelled incorrectly

doverley — 2012-02-24 12:51:09Z

Here is the information we know. My dad was born 1-24-1937 in Chicago Illinois to Elizabeth Stolinski. She was divorced and had 2 young boys from her first marriage named Raymond and Robert. When my dad was 2 years old she married George Kalas. He never adopted my dad. When my dad started school my grandma "altered" his birth certificate and listed his last name as Kalas. My dad has gone thru his life with the Kalas name. The name on his birth certificate lists John Guices as his father. I'm sure my g'ma spelled it wrong because she was a terrible speller. When my dad was born my g'ma and his father had already gone their separate ways and we believe it's very likely that his dad never knew my g'ma was pregnant. As my dad grew up he was forbidden to speak of his illegitimacy and my g'ma refused to tell him very little about his dad. She did say he was killed in WW2. We believe this to be true because when my dad was an adult she did show him a picture of him in some paper that was showing photos of soldiers killed in the war. She also said his last name rhymed with duchess. I hope this additional information is helpful! Thanks, Debbie

Re: Looking for family name Guices-this is probably spelled incorrectly

sadauskt — 2012-02-23 20:31:24Z

You will get more responses if you provide additional details such as names, dates of birth, locations, etc...

Right now, we can't tell when the birth occurred of an unnamed male child in some country in the world.

Tom S.

Looking for family name Guices-this is probably spelled incorrectly

doverley — 2012-01-29 15:17:00Z

Looking for my dads biological father. My gma wasn't married to his dad. I don't think my gma told this man she was pregnant. When my dad was 2 she remarried. She simply started using this mans name of Kalas as my dads thou he was never legally adopted. I believe he was Lithuanian. Please if you know of anyone who can help me???

Rasimaucus

bass2444 — 2011-12-17 23:24:59Z

I just found out my grandfather (Joe Lauchiskis, died 1947 in Chicago)had a cousin Jonas Rasimaucus from Batavia IL and a cousin Sally Pivariunas in Phildelphia. Are you related to any of these people? Bert

Re: Gabrenas, Karroll, Yodis

gedgrina — 2011-11-16 21:34:43Z

Do you mean Victor Gabrenas from the village Migonys or Starkonys / Kupiskis?
Ged

Re: Lithuania to Illinois

msitaksab — 2011-09-21 01:44:34Z

St. Casimir Burial Records have a child of Roch Klimas and Marijonna Ambrozaciuke.

Jonas Kilmas, age 8, died in Cicero, Illinios on June 26, 1912 and is buried in St. Casimir

Re: Lithuania to Illinois

D_Zamiara — 2011-09-17 18:39:13Z

In my husband's lines I have a Mary
Marijonna Ambrozaitis, b. 1885, Lithuania, d. Feb 1962, Chicago, IL, married Jul 30, 1905, Chicago, to Rokas Roy Klimas, b. Jan 10, 1878, Lithuania, d. May 5, 1940, Chicago. They had three children, Joseph Rocco, Roy/Rokas and Cecilia. I am reseaching Klimas line. If you can help, my email is Dana56zam@aol.com Rokas's father was Rokus/Rokas Klimas, from Kuturiai Village, Jurbarkas Parish. We visited that village.

Re: Zipsnis

philu1945 — 2011-08-10 13:40:58Z

Thank you for the info. My relatives immigrated in 1899 & 1900. The ones you mentioned might be related.

Zupienis name

Bieliauskaite — 2011-08-10 09:30:20Z

In a book about victims of Soviet terror, WW2 era, there is a short entry with the name Z^upienis, Stanislovas son of Kazimieras, born 1917, lived in the town of Grinkiskis, in the Radviliskis district of Siauliai region. He had been released from a prison in the 1940's. This surname spelling seems close to what you had for the father of Anthony, and the town does match. I tried looking for the Zupienis name in the Lithuanian on-line phone directory, but did not find any listings.

When I looked at the Bremen passenger list to see what passengers came from Grinkiskis, I found Constantin Mesoka, 4/11/1907, going to Chicago via the port Baltimore MD, traveling with Iwan Ramanska. The Mesoka name is so close to Mostaka name you posted, and seeing as how the passenger is from the same homeown, it is worth mentioning.

I'm not related.

Re: Zipsnis

philu1945 — 2011-08-09 18:26:41Z

My mom was Helen A Zipsnis before she married. Her father was Anton A. Zipsnis and he married Kristina Mostaka in 1910, they had 5 children and she had 4 children by a previous marriage. They all grew up at 1612 Sangamon Ave, Springfield, IL. Anton immigrated in 1900 and was naturalized in 1901. His parents were Augustin Ziupniz and Regina Gurskiuke. I believed they lived in Grinkiskisuke, Kovno, Lithuania.
Phil Ulinski

Re: YESUTIS to US 1893, lived in Chicago

eternal01 — 2011-08-07 02:53:42Z

Is this name the same as "Yasitis"? That family came to US from Lithuania abt 1910, to Illinois/Wisconsin. Born in Peluciai Village 1889- Joseph Yasitis. He married a Lithuanian born woman Marcella Domeika born 1897 from same village after she also came to US with her parents.
These are my aunt's parents.

Sokary or Sokari village?

lanternhillboston — 2011-06-24 01:33:55Z

Anyone ever heard of Sokary village? I think my uncle's ancestor may have come from there (his Ellis Island record says "Laykas, Josef" from Sokary, Russia (he was Lithuanian and I know at the time it was controlled by Russia)...?

Re: Looking for people in RUSSIA ( USSR ) - help is here

magdialyas — 2011-05-13 01:56:21Z

am looking for people from russia to shair bussinese with me in china or if any one like to come to china for busnisse i can help him i have service office in china
hope to her from u

Re: Ruscykas on Ellis Island 4/24/1897

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-25 22:16:31Z

I'll try it.

Re: Ruscykas on Ellis Island 4/24/1897

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-25 22:14:46Z

Looks like you are leaving a letter out: Ruscykas. This is how they interpreted the writing, to me it looks like Ruseykas, but DON'T use that spelling to find it on the data base.

Re: Ruscykas on Ellis Island 4/24/1897

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-25 22:02:51Z

I went to Ellis Island and put in Adam Rucykas and they came back and said there was no one that matched.

Ruscykas on Ellis Island 4/24/1897

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-25 09:04:12Z

Are you referring to the Ruscykas family arrival on Ellis Island data base? Not sure why you can't find it, it's listed as I posted. You may want to check your spelling, and/or make sure you have the surname in the correct box. Are you using the Ellis Island web site, or the SteveMorse site to do your search?

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-25 00:56:29Z

I can't find this record. How did you find it? I must not know all the tricks.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-24 20:52:28Z

That's probably true, I didn't think of that either.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-23 20:49:21Z

It just occurred to me that the date in the book is likely when they got their license, not actually married.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-23 16:31:00Z

Maybe they married for the state first and then in church.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-23 00:01:11Z

I JUST NEVER SAW ADAM AS A FAMILY NAME. ANTON YES AND PETER BUT ADAM I DON'T KNOW. THE REST OF IT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD THOUGH.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-22 21:18:06Z

I do have their marriage certificate. They were married in Jan. 1899 at St. Joseph's church in Scranton. I know her brothers and sisters were with her in Rockford in 1930.I think her mother died before that.Thanks so much for alerting me to these websiyes- I'm going to have to try them.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-22 16:02:20Z

I may have found the Ellis Island arrival of his wife. There is a Magdalene Ruscykas (Ruscjkas) arrived 4/24/1897 age 19 going to Scranton PA. she is with her family, father Adam 54, mother Anna 54, and Rosa 14, Agnes 10. I had no luck finding this family on the 1900 census and wonder if the rest of them returned to Lithuania. There is no town of origin listed on this manifest.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-22 12:25:03Z

I think I found their marriage info at this site

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palackaw/

Peter Wiever wed Magdalena Rusickinte in 1898 in Lackawanna county PA. It is listed in book #49 which begins with Nov 1898, so they were wed in either Nov or Dec of 1898.

But I still could not find them in 1900 census.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-22 10:57:18Z

You can view the Ellis Island records at their web site.

http://www.ellisisland.org/

You have to register, but it is free. Once registered there is another web site that you can use to do searches, stevemorse.org

That web site is outstanding for doing searches with only a partial name spellings.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-21 23:45:11Z

Well, my father was born Nov. 30, 1899 in Scranton,PA, so I think they were there, maybe not.I have him listed as born in 1874 but I know they were very liberal with dates and ages.I don't know how to look up the ship manifest, is it a gov. site?And the other names I don't recognize. But this is a good start-thank you.That is the way his name would be pronounced I think.

Re: Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

Bieliauskaite — 2011-03-21 22:58:03Z

Have you found his ship manifest? I found a Ellis Island passenger Petrus Weweris arrived 2/9/1892. I had to page forward to #37 (in the highlighted blue box) to view the actual manifest page. He is 21, going to Mt Pleasant, but no state is noted. Several passengers next to him are also going to same town, Josef Kalinowitz and Teofil Lukowitz. These old manifests don't give much info, so not sure there is anything there for you to connect to.

I did not find Peter and family in the 1900 census. Do you know where they were then? There are many towns named Mount Pleasant in PA, as well as in other states.

I'm not related.

Weaver/ Vavrys/Ruskavage

marnie1weaver — 2011-03-20 17:50:35Z

I am researching my father's family and am not having much luck. All of these names ended up in Illinois but started or went through Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. My grandfather was Peter Weaver/Vavrys and his wife was Margaret Roskie. A sister married a Peter Ruskavage. This was all in the Rockford area. I would so appreciate any help. I have the censuses up to 1930 but I would just like to see some other connections.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

sadauskt — 2011-01-06 05:29:15Z

Georgea,

The ideal situation would be for the diocese to photocopy the actual church marriage entries rather than relying on someone else to decipher bad penmanship and give you what they think they read.

Our parish priest sent my parents a copy of my grandparents church register entry from 1920 and apologized that he couldn't read it. Partly this was due to the penmanship and partly because it was written in Latin.

After some effort on my part, I was able to decipher it and decode all that had been written down.

If you are lucky, it will be an ethnic church where the pastor took pride in his penmanship and attention to detail.

Good luck.

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2011-01-06 05:10:51Z

Hi Tom,
Thank you so much for your suggestions. We have found that the Diocese of Peoria holds the records that we seem to be after so have sent off 3 reguests but they tell us it could take 2months so will sit and wait. The Sharkey children had no birth records, born before records kept it seems. The civi records for the marriage of the children aren't much help as father's spelling is Sharkey and the mother is listed differently on each one. So we continue to look at different avenues and look forward to what the Diocese can tell us.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

tsadausk — 2011-01-03 00:46:56Z

Georgea,

If the church was Roman Catholic, then their records would have been transferred elsewhere. Have you contacted the Catholic diocese for that area to see who might have the records.

Any civil marriage license records for them?

What info is on the birth certificates of the children?

If the children were married in Catholic wedding ceremonies, then they would have needed proof of baptism. What did they use as proof if the church was no longer in existence.

There are still other routes to follow to get the info you need. You just need to be inventive.

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2011-01-03 00:37:14Z

Yes, our Stanley Sharkey died in 1910 at a hospital that is no longer there and the church that buried him no longer exists and the cemetery has no grave marker for him but another funeral home told me he is buried at the Spring Valley, Illinois Cemetery. A marriage certificate I can not find for either wife nor Sharkey as they were probably married in Bureau County, Illinois in the church he was buried through and that no longer exists. We are pretty sure the 1900 Census we have for a Stauna Sharky is our guy but not positive (Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois) and are positive of the 1910 Census one with wife and children. Believe they married in 1901 according to 1910 Census.
The one we found coming to the states that someone found for us Stanislaw Scharke was headed for Chicago, Illinois, left Hamburg, Germany 2 Feb 1896 and arrived New York, 17 Feb 1896 on the "Prussia". This is all the information we have ever found in 30 years of looking.

So you can see my conundrum. I thank you for your continued suggestions. Maybe I should turn this over to "Who do you think you are?" televison program?
Thank you again. Mrs. Georgea Sharkey

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

sadauskt — 2011-01-02 23:20:27Z

Georgea,

I see from your posted family tree that Stanley Sharkey died in 1910.

Your best bet for a more authentic Lithuanian surname would be to get a copy of the original church marriage register entry for his marriage.

Where was that Stanislaus headed to in the U.S. that someone found for you?

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

sadauskt — 2011-01-02 23:11:36Z

Georgea,

When did you Stanley Sharkey die? He might have filled out a Social Security Card application in the mid 1930s which might list his place/date of birth.

Which of the U.S. Censuses have you found him listed. The 1930 version is the most current one until 2012 when they'll release the 1940 version.

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2011-01-02 07:09:01Z

No problem, I was even sent a draft notice back in the 60's! My husband's grandfather's name was Stanley Sharkey in the USA but of course that was changed at some point of him entering America. According to US Census's he came to America in 1896 and was Lithuanian and on the 1910 US Census he was listed as 32 which would make him born 1878. The Census says he was naturalized as an American but we are unable to find that no doubt due to the name change. One person who scoured the Ellis Island records came up with a Stanislav Scharke who left Hamburg, Germany 2 Feb 1896 on the "Prussia" and this was the man who came from this town S veks na, Russia. The age of this Scharke was listed as 23 so there is a 5 year difference in the census and this passenger record. The 1900 US Census has our man born March 1875 and listed as Stauna Sharkey. You can see my dilema at trying to find this man. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Georgea Sharkey Note: Stanley Sharkey ended up in LaSalle County, Illinois, USA in 1896.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

sadauskt — 2011-01-02 06:49:34Z

Georgea,

Sorry about that.

What are the details regarding the Lithuanian ancestors you are researching?

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2011-01-02 05:55:35Z

Many, many thanks Tom for your help. Will join the Lithuanian group as you suggest. The name came from the Hamburg Passenger lists to the USA so you are right, German spelling? At least I have a thread to hold onto now. Thanks again. Georgea (female)

Re: Schweksne (Town?) - Try S^veks^na

sadauskt — 2011-01-02 04:00:41Z

George,

I'd suggest you join the Lithuanian genealogy group on Yahoo at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LithuanianGenealogy/

It's a much more active group that the one you posted your message on.

Since Lithuanian was occupied by Russia (1795-1918), your Lithuanian place name would be listed as being part of Russia (Russland).

It appears the place name is written using a German spelling (e.g., SCHW). My educated guess is that it is the town of S^veks^na in Lithuanian. It is located southeast of Klapeida and 21 kilometers east of Silute. The 2001 census listed it as having 2,053 inhabitants.

Here is the URL for the town's entry in the Lithuanian Wikipedia.

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0v%C4%97k%C5%A1na

Hope this helps.

Tom S.

Re: Schweksne (Town?)

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2010-12-31 00:48:10Z

On a recent Hamburg passenger list search this town came up with Russland after it. I can find no such town in Russia. Any help please??

Re: Looking for people in Lithuania

GeorgeaSharkey86 — 2010-12-31 00:44:45Z

Do you also look for people in Lithuania?

Re: Looking for people in RUSSIA ( USSR ) - help is here

raspusha — 2010-11-03 18:23:24Z

I can assist in finding any existing/published contact information, military and family records, surviving relatives and adoption details. The list is not complete, every story is unique and takes the search in a whole new direction. It's a formula I try to solve with a given number of known and unknown variables. My hope is only that the unknown variables do not overwhelm the search.

Feel free to email me any information about your search to raspusha@gmail.com

Re: Looking for people in RUSSIA ( USSR ) - help is here

baltrusaityterasa — 2010-11-02 18:18:07Z

I am Rasa Batrusaityte. Algirdas-Domas Zutautas was my grandfather. He was maried with my grandmother Anastazija and had a daughter Ruta Zutautaite- my mother.
If you'd write me to baltrusaityterasa@gmai.com, i could ask to my mother and tell you more about our family and Domas Zutautas,

Re: Lingavich or Lingovich; Lingevich

mbeaudreault — 2010-10-30 19:56:32Z

I think I can help you with the third sister Hellen/Patricia but I'm hoping you can share with me. Hellen, who lived in Waukegan IL is my wife's Grandmother. Let me know if your still checking the message boards and I'd love to share some information, stories, pictures etc...

- Mark