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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Evan Saltis, post: 6718816, member: 103066&quot;]Some of you may know that I am a genealogist, and a smaller number of you may know I do Lithuanian genealogy, which required me to either learn some Russian, or pay someone to read the Russian records for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>This lead me to a world of information which simply is not available in the Latin alphabet.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Here is a sample of how Catholic Church records were written in Russian:</b></p><p>I&#039;ve highlighted and translated some info I read in these records.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1270979[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a birth for Ieva- my great great grandmother. Her surname (Lithuanians have different last name ending depending on marital status) was Baranauskaitiė. Male version, Baranauskas. This surname isn&#039;t uncommon in Lithuania, but in small regions, Šiauliai in this case, it is safe to assume they are connected as the population stayed very still until the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a story of how I found some crazy coincidence in my family tree, only for that coincidence to be too good to be true.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start this beyond Brenner&#039;s death, oddly enough.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Five years after Brenner’s death, in 1929, Dr. Alexander M. Rackus, a prominent Lithuanian American physician, ethnographer, historian, and numismatist, gave his version of the designer’s biography at a convention of the American Numismatic Association in Chicago.&quot;</i> <a href="https://www.draugas.org/news/profiles-brenner-of-baranauskas-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-name-and-origin-of-the-designer-of-the-lincoln-penny/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.draugas.org/news/profiles-brenner-of-baranauskas-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-name-and-origin-of-the-designer-of-the-lincoln-penny/" rel="nofollow">Draugas</a>, a famed Lithuanian newspaper published in 2000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short, he says Brenner was born as &quot;Viktoras Barnauskas&quot; which is odd, as that is a Lithuanian name while Brenner was a Litvak, a Jewish man who would have had a different naming custom. I inquired with some peers of mine in Lithuania, from different backgrounds, and they confirmed that this was entirely abnormal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Rackus absolutely made this up, or got it from someone who was a liar. This ANA speech was baseless, but it certainly was so long ago, this speech he gave is from an era long gone. He gives a speech full of false information based on the Draugas article, and only Dr. Rackus knows where this misinformation came from. </p><p><br /></p><p>Will the ANA update this misinformation? For all I know, it is still commonly accepted, despite the Draugas article which really has a niche following. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>To the ANA, as one who was deceived, I demand a 1909 S VDB as reparation!!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>PS:</b> I didn&#039;t take too long to write this, so if there are gaps in the story or you have questions I am glad to try and answer. This is quick info I decided to finally write after months of thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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