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From: "Ruta Coffin" <>
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Re: Surname? Yakstis = Jasaitis?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:40:21 +0000


Your name should definately start with a "J", there are very
few words in Lithuanian that start with a "Y". So Yakstis should be
spelled as Jaks~tys. As to whether your name is Jaks~tys or
Jasaitis, there is no way to tell that, without any documentation.
Both names are plausible, and to pick one over the other would be a
pure guess.

Ruta

> I have a problem, I don't know what my last name is. I wrote to
LAGS >and they told me the original spelling of my last name.
Americanized >it is spelled "YAKSTIS". LAGS wrote back to me and
told me that "They >are unsure of the spelling but they think it
could be "JAKS^TIS" or >"JAKS^TYS". My problem begins here.... I
found an old letter witht >the last name "JASAITIS" on it. Could
this be my last name?! > Considering I don't know lithuanian... Im
completely lost. I looked >in the Lith White Pages and found a list
of like 50 people with this >last name. Help! > Thanks
> Nichole Yakstis

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