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From: "Michael P. Klinosky" <>
Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Re: Sungaila/Vasilauskiene/Ogurkis
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:48:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <025001c280e9$2d51dc30$210110ac@THINKPAD>


Hello. On Thursday, David stated:
> Vanagas et. al. (1989) found 980 Vasiliauskaus in Lithuania,
> lithuanianized version of Polish locational form Wasilewski [27870
> examples in Poland circa 1994]. The toponymic root is the personal name
> Wasily = Basil.

I'm interested in 'Vasiliauskaus'. I have in my ancestry a surname that I
made out to be VOSYLIUS. Is there a possibility that they're the same name
(have the same root)?

What does Vanagas list for 'Vosylius'?

Btw - yes, I saw many in the online phonebook.

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