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Adam Mickiewicz associated dark hair in Lithuania with ethnic Polish ancestry:
https://archive.org/stream/pantadeus...ch/Dobrzynskis
^^^ So Barbara is probably a "long lost" Polka:
^^^
There were many Poles in Lauda (Kaunas region), who later became Lithuanized:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_(region)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanization
Ethnic Lithuanians were only 2/5 of population of Lauda (Kaunas Uyezd) in 1897:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kovensky_Uyezd
Map showing percentage of ethnic Lithuanians by county (uyezd) in early 1900s:Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kovensky Uyezd had a population of 227,431. Of these, 41.4% spoke Lithuanian, 23.2% Polish, 19.8% Yiddish, 11.6% Russian, 2.3% German, 0.5% Tatar, 0.4% Belarusian, 0.1% Chuvash, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% Karelian and 0.1% Udmurt as their native language.[1]
http://terkepek.adatbank.transindex.ro/belso.php?nev=8
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