Our maternal Great Grandparents were Mikhail and Eva Alexandrovich.
Mikhail farmed around Skubai, north west of Kaunas, Lithuania. Eva's maiden name was Bartkis. They had one daughter and two sons. Our grandfather, Stanislaus, was their youngest child.
The family name was originally Alexandrovich, indicating the earliest origins from north west Russia, near the Lithuanian border; it means "son of Alexander". The custom in Lithuania is to convert all foreign names to a Lithuanian form, hence the family now being known as Aleksandravicius. (Myklos and Ieva Aleksandravicius)
Ieva seems to have had a wholly Lithuanian surname. The -ute ending of her maiden surname means Miss.
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