Surnames?

Place of birth makes more sense. I looked all over for an Anabai, and the only thing I can find is some oil fields in Kazakhstan. I hope you don't mind all the input, I do love a good mystery and really can't help but diging myself.

What I have come up with is:

Ducret
Dysart
Deysart
Deysurt
Degroot
Dosart
Ducret
Dessart
Duchart
Dausha
Dausnik

Wow, thats a wide variety of names. Degroot is Dutch. Deysart sounds Flemish somehow. Ducret and Duchart sound French. Dausha or Dausnik - but here I'm in unfamiliar territory - could conceivably be Slavic, or Baltic, or Slavicized (the "-nik") Baltic. (NOT that I'm particularly knowledgeable about any of this).

Now "Dauszkurt" (you wrote that you found a Stanley Dauszkurt)

Then again, if there were some Lithuanian root, you'd expect your questions at JewishGen might have yielded something, their lithuanian SIG is a good source

LithuanianGenealogy. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in Lithuania. You can subscribe from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lithuaniangenealogy/ [..]

LithuanianGenealogyGroup. An interactive group for anyone interested in their Lithuanian heritage. [..] You can subscribe from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lithuaniangenealogygroup/.

LITVAKSIG. A mailing list for anyone interested in the preservation and computerization of primary sources of genealogical data for the descendants of the Lithuanian Jewish community. [You know this one already I guess, it's the one at jewishgen.org]

litwa.bialours. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in their ancestors who lived in Lithuania or Belarus. Additional information can be found on the Genealogical Mailing List "Lithuania & Belarus website. To subscribe send the following to [email protected]: subscribe

There are better shots than Dauks^as.
They are: Dauskartas, Dauskartiene (married woman), Dauskartaite (unmarried female);
Dauskurtas, Dauskurtiene, Dauskurtaite;
Dauskurdas, Dauskurdiene, Dauskurdaite;
Dauskurdis, Dauskurdiene, Dauskurdyte.
There are people with those surnames still living. You can find them in Lith. phone book www.takas.lt .
Hope this helps.

Which ending would I apply........? It was said to have a "vich" sound at the end.

Thing is, I have no idea where the ending -kurt could be from... doesnt sound familiar. Edit: saw your last post, from the LithGen forum - "Dauskurtas", now that's not far from "Dauszkurt" at all!

I dont see why anyone but a Lithuanian would be carrying around a Lithuanian-language Bible, at that time - it's not a language many non-Lithuanians would speak, especially not at the time, when it was part of the Russian empire. The language is not related to any other, and all the assimilatory forces were the other way round at the time - for Lithuanians to Russify or even Policize.

Quote:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Whats this telling me?

That your GGF might well be Lithuanian?

I'm always amazed when people go deep down in the various sidelines.

I just know the straight line of my father's side (nearly completely from 1540 onwards, a couple of sources earlier, down to 1287).

It would be more intersting to look at father's mother's site - German until 12th century, than immigrating to Holland, some going back to Germany in 14th century), but actually that's not "my" family