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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Evan Saltis, post: 6726867, member: 103066&quot;]It really does appear as if this birthdate given can not be backed up. Lithuanians (really, a lot of people of the time) didn’t care at all about birthdays. They knew for the most part the date, just the year seems to change as men lied to be younger to avoid mandatory conscription in the czars army.</p><p><br /></p><p>This region is pockmarked by missing records. Russians fully BANNED the Lithuanian language for a long time, exhiling those who spoke it, and sometimes killing those who developed a book smuggling ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even last names weren’t safe from Russian intrusion. My last name Šaltis in Lithuanian, Шалтис in modern Russian. In these records, as part of “Russification” surnames were changed. This Russification of my name would come out pronounced as Shaltisov. In Cyrillic, шалтьсов</p><p><br /></p><p>It was cultural genocide[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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