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 > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | "All is number" Pythagoras > | "e^(i*Pi) + 1 = 0" Euler > | "The answer...is 42" Deep Thought > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is my understanding that in Polish the suffix -kiewicz means son of. So here it is Son of Mazur.