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From: robin and kevin krout <>
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Re: LITHUANIA-D Digest V98 #481
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 14:10:18 -0500


> Jim,

> What makes you think no one in the family can speak English? Have you ever asked
> them if they could speak English? Perhaps they have friends that don't mind
> translating letters. It would be foolish to make that assumption. I was shocked
> to find that so many Polish people speak English as a 2nd language - as well as the
> German. Keep writing! Robin

> From: "Paul Miller" <>
> To:
>
> My family has been most fortunate in remaining in contact with Lithuania.
> There were 5 brothers who came over at the beginning of the century. They
> came to escape the draft, and more importantly to avoid working for their
> drunken stepfather, Druktenis (The real father had died accidentally in
> 1894- either fell through the ice or was hit by a tree) Today, ninety years
> later, my grandmother and her brother are still corresponding with the
> children and grandchildren and great grandchildren of these sisters. When my
> grandmother and her brother are gone, the writing will end, as they are the
> last who speak Lithuanian in the family.
> Jim Miller

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