Re: Desperate help with Lith. ancestry for Zalonka, Smigelska/Zmigelska family
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Desperate help with Lith. ancestry for Zalonka, Smigelska/Zmigelska family
Sandy Zalonka 5/13/02
Lithuanians usually pronounce/spell these surnames Zelionka and S^migelskas.You may find different spellings of these surnames in Ellisisland database because of language was used: Lithuanian or Russian or Polish or German. Zelionka may be Zelonka (mean Green in Russian), and Szmigelska, Smigelska, Schmigelska, Shmigelska - feminine forms of S^migelskas.
Regards.
Vidmantas.