The Ives

I've made contact with more of the Raulinitis Clan!  I managed to track down a few from the Ives family.  They're a sub-group from the Flanagans, which branches off from Margaret Raulinitis, my great-grandmother's youngest sister.  Over the last day there's been a flurry of Facebook messages going between us.

Tracing through a female lineage can be tricky, as there are so many name changes, but luckily they've got contact will all the other Flanagan descendants, so it will make the job of getting to the others quite easy.  What's more is that they know something of what happened to Annie Raulinitis, my great-grandmother's other sister!  As I wrote previously, I managed to find record of her having been in the US, but nothing of much detail.  I suspected she had married and taken a new name, but without some clue of knowing what it was, finding her could be really difficult.  Fortunately, Jane Ives has told me that she thinks she married a sailor with the name Graham.  I'm confident we'll get more about her because, Jane tells me, her aunt Annie Flanagan, the niece of Annie Raulinitis, also emigrated to New York and was taken in by her.  Annie Flanagan apparently married someone named Raymond, but he died young, and she became a nun (I'm discovering an awful lot of nuns in the family!).  But she's still living, so she will certainly know more about her aunt.


I've also been messaging with Jane's brother Rob.  He had done a bit of genealogy work himself.  I'm really looking forward to hearing more about what he know of us, because he'd even gone to the extent of traveling to Lithuania in search of leads!  I'm not sure if he was looking for us (i.e. if he knew Zose and Kazimiras had returned there) or if he was looking for record of Motiejus and Eva's families.  But I told him he wouldn't find us there, being that Kazimiras Jr was killed by the Russians and the rest of the family fled to the US.


It's really great to make this contact and to find that they seem just as curious about us as we are about them.  I don't expect every one of them to care that much either way, but it's nice that I moved here with only Jessee and I've amassed more family than I ever knew I had!