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From: David Zincavage <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] linguistic nationalism
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:30:26 -0700
References: <004d01c32c4a$cfa895c0$c2dec850@eswo>


If they lived in Wilno in the 17th century, they were probably
Polish-speaking ethnic Lithuanians. As far as I can see, there was never
any significant Polish immigration to Lithuania until the 19th century. But
all Lithuanians were also Poles, politically and culturally.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Egon Wojciulewicz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: [LITHUANIA-L] linguistic nationalism


> I effectively looked to quiet a lot of genealogical trees of these
> 'Polish' inhabitants, especially mine, and I saw that almost all
> ancestors had polish names from the very beginning (e.g. In 1648), when
> in some parishes registration of birth, death and marriages became
> mandatory. They never had to change it into Polish, it always was in
> Polish.
>
> ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
> Egon Wojciulewicz
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Egijus Sinkus [mailto:]
> Sent: vrijdag 6 juni 2003 19:36
> To:
> Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] linguistic nationalism
>
>
> > I think today Vilnius is Vilnius (and during the interbellum, when 80
> > % of the inhabitants was Polish, it was Wilno) and Warszawa is
> > Warszawa (and not
> Hello,
> I You would took a look to genealogical trees of these "Polish"
> inhabitants, You would saw that almost all their ancestors were
> Lithuanians. When Poland had occupated Vilnius, Polish authority
> compeled Vilnius inhabitants to change their surnames into Polish forms.
>
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