In article <5gccng$302$1@news.ptd.net>, pako@scranton.com (Paul Kobar) wrote: >I have been trying to find the national/cultural/political >derivation of names with the suffix -kevicz. My mother's >paternal family name is Mazurkevicz, which seems to imply >a location in what is now Poland, bu the is Lithuanian. >However I know the political borders changes several times >throughout history. DOes any body have information on the >name or suffix? >Thanks >--Paul > The ending "-kevicz " is a corrupted version of "-iewicz, " "-ewicz, " _evich, " "-ievich, "-ievic, " or "-evic " endings in several Slavic languages plus the Lithuanian " -ievicius " meaning " Son of. " Perhaps someone from Pittsburgh could comment further. (:-) -- " Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. " A Belarusan in America <http://www.netcom.com/~homan/bielarus.html>