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From: "Vytas" <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] RUSSIA POLAND vs. LITHUANIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:35:56 +1000

Ted
The period you refer to is after the 3rd partion of Lithuania and Poland
around the turn of the century. .The Commonwealth of Lithuania & Poland had
existed for a long period prior to that. Lithuania was quite Polonized up
to that stage with the Polish language being used by the "up market" folk
whilst the "commoners"used Lithuanian.
The masters of Lithuania were, who else but, Russians, so for some purposes
Lithuania became simply part of Russia.. So it would have been easy for a
Lithuanian to be refered to as a Pole or a Russian by those filling in forms
in a foreign country.
Regards
Vytas
Melbourne Australia

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From: Ted General <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 10:29 AM
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] RUSSIA POLAND vs. LITHUANIA

>Hi Folks,
>
> There is somewhat of a debate within my family as
>to where our great grandfather emigrated from. In some
>census records it indicates Russia Poland and in
>others German Poland. Yet older relatives say he
>came from Lithuania in 1871. Were immigrants from
>Lithuania in the 1860's and 1870's said to be
>Russian Polish during that era?
>
> **Ted General**
>
>
>
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