jangle1
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2026 3:04 pm
Post subject: Possible ancestors? Looking for advice
Hello, I hope everyone is doing well!
I recently got back into more genealogical searching and came across something that might connect to me, or might not. I have been able to establish that my 5th-great grandfather is Jokubas/Jakob Krutulis and died in Ūdrija, Alytus County, Lithuania by at the very least 1910 when his son, Stanislavas Krutulis is noted to have died in a parish record. They both were from the village of Jackany. I know that when Stanislavas died in 1910, he was said to be 75 years old. 1910-75=1835. I know especially for older people, that they would guess approximate ages, so I know this isn't a certain fact. However, even if his birth year moved some, I still think it could be possible that I maybe found his father's birth record.
I was looking through the Ūdrijos Catholic births parish records for the years 1801-1820 (https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267905528) and found a few names, but I am not sure how much I should consider them or continue trying to trace these links. I know for sure that my Stanislavas' parents were Jokūbas Krutulis and Rozalija Žvirblytė. In 1813 I found a record for Jakob Krutul born in Jackany to a Jan and Justyna. I also found a Stefan Krutul 1814, Petronella Krutulowna 1817, and Stanislaw Krutulis 1819 all from Jackany and all born to Jan and Justyna. There were many similar names and variations of Krutul/Krutulis/Krutulowna in the parish book, but these 4 people I think are indeed siblings. If Jakob was born in 1813, that could make him 22/23 in 1835 when Stanislavas was born, which I presume is possible... even if 1835 fluctuates some.
I know this is not something that I should immediately consider to be fact, but I was wondering how some more experienced and wise researchers might handle this? Does it sound plausible enough to try and work with it for now? Or still too big a stretch? If it is helpful, I attached the small parish birth records for the four siblings (Jakob's is a little messy, but it is still in there  ) . Please let me know if I can clarify anything further and thanks for taking a look!
~jerry
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2026 8:26 am
Post subject: Re: Possible ancestors? Looking for advice
| jangle1 wrote: | Hello, I hope everyone is doing well!
I recently got back into more genealogical searching and came across something that might connect to me, or might not. I have been able to establish that my 5th-great grandfather is Jokubas/Jakob Krutulis and died in Ūdrija, Alytus County, Lithuania by at the very least 1910 when his son, Stanislavas Krutulis is noted to have died in a parish record. They both were from the village of Jackany. I know that when Stanislavas died in 1910, he was said to be 75 years old. 1910-75=1835. I know especially for older people, that they would guess approximate ages, so I know this isn't a certain fact. However, even if his birth year moved some, I still think it could be possible that I maybe found his father's birth record.
I was looking through the Ūdrijos Catholic births parish records for the years 1801-1820 (https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267905528) and found a few names, but I am not sure how much I should consider them or continue trying to trace these links. I know for sure that my Stanislavas' parents were Jokūbas Krutulis and Rozalija Žvirblytė. In 1813 I found a record for Jakob Krutul born in Jackany to a Jan and Justyna. I also found a Stefan Krutul 1814, Petronella Krutulowna 1817, and Stanislaw Krutulis 1819 all from Jackany and all born to Jan and Justyna. There were many similar names and variations of Krutul/Krutulis/Krutulowna in the parish book, but these 4 people I think are indeed siblings. If Jakob was born in 1813, that could make him 22/23 in 1835 when Stanislavas was born, which I presume is possible... even if 1835 fluctuates some.
I know this is not something that I should immediately consider to be fact, but I was wondering how some more experienced and wise researchers might handle this? Does it sound plausible enough to try and work with it for now? Or still too big a stretch? If it is helpful, I attached the small parish birth records for the four siblings (Jakob's is a little messy, but it is still in there ) . Please let me know if I can clarify anything further and thanks for taking a look!
~jerry |
Hi Jerry,
This is very interesting. I did spend some time paging through the church book that you provided a link to, for the birth records 1801-1820 (by the way, the cover is lovely) and it is nicely organized with the index on the first few pages. You can easily scan down those columns and see all the Krutulis births and the names of the parents, before going to the pages with the full records. I support your interpretation that the four records you mention are siblings. Since, in that 20 year span, there is only one Jakob Krutul, and because you have other evidence that he was from this place, it is plausible that he is your Jakob. But how to prove it?
While I had no trouble navigating this church book, I did have trouble with looking around on that website for other church books for Udrija. The marriage records would be useful to rule him in as your Jakob. The presence of a childhood death record for the Jakob who was born in 1813 would be useful to rule him out. The absence of a death record for him would keep the hope open. I assume you already worked through this logic and you would have provided marriage or death records if they were available on the website. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has suggestions for what to look at, to help you decide if this is your family.
As an aside, are you aware that the Krutulis name is on a list of displaced persons, for 1915-1918? The Projekt Kurpie website has indexed some people from Jackany, Udria from a "spis wysiedlonych." I am attaching a screenshot that shows names from the town of Jackany. It includes the spellings Krupulis, Krutal, and Krutulis. If you'd like to follow up on this, the website is: https://kurpie.genbaza.pl/
From there, go to this link to see the document from which this index was made (since the names are written in Russian I did not pursue finding which image they are on):
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/jednostka/-/jednostka/12366998
Best regards,
Sophia
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jangle1
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Posted: Yesterday at 7:03 pm
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Hi Sophia!
Yes, I love when they have the index, it makes it so helpful! And it is so pretty, I love seeing the different handwritings too!
I have had trouble navigating that website too! I tried putting in Ūdrijos in the parish map locator, but ended up scrolling over to Alytaus and looking, because when I search just for Ūdrija on the same website, I only get 4 results that aren’t all even from Ūdrija.
I did think of those possibilities, but what I could find didn't turn much up. In regard to possible records of Jakob’s death, These two links: https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907304
https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907256 are organized in the Same folder as the parish book I found Jakob’s birth in, (Jakob’s is titled Ūdrijos RKB, not titled Alytus II as many of the others are). Despite being labeled differently, when viewing the map, all are listed as being from the same Alytaus Šv. Angelų Sargų bažnyčia. Ūdrija is definitely close on the map, but that still gives me slight pause, especially because there are other birth record parish books for the same years as the one in which I found Jakob. I’m not sure if it was misplaced or if I’m not understanding totally. I did not find Jakob in either of those death records from 1814 and 1815, nor from this one, https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907064, that goes till 1821. I also checked these two: https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907208, https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907352, They had records that extended farther, but without really being sure if I’m even in the right place, I stopped at 1816.
Also if Stanislavas was born around 1835, Jakob would have to be around 22 when he was born, assuming he would have had to had been married at least a couple months before that. The other Alytus book marriage I looked through, which is linked to the same church as the Ūdrija one, does not have him in there and it goes to 1834, the year before Stanislavas might have been born. This is the one: https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267906920
And then I looked through: https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267906968 in case the years were wrong and Stanislavas was born later making it possible for Jakob to have been married to someone else/or not at all by 1835. I did not find him in this one. And I didn’t find him in this one either: https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267907016 which goes to 1860. I saw some Krutulis in there, but no familiar names…When I used ePaveldas to search for more specific records, I only get records I’ve seen before, that aren’t helpful here. Looking on Metrikai.lt also didn’t turn up anything helpful.
Thank you so much for your input and suggestions for my situation, I always appreciate your ideas and wisdom! And thank you also for bringing my attention to Projekt Kurpie, I had not heard of it before. I’m excited to look into it!
~jerry
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Yesterday at 6:31 am
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Hi Jerry,
This morning's cup of coffee went well with a little browsing through records from Udrija. Here's another child of Jan and Justyna Krutulis. Her name is Barbara and she was born in 1830. Go to image 166 in this link:
https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/267909848
Isn't 1830 a bit late, compared to the birth years of the kids you found?
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Posted: Yesterday at 6:47 am
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And here is Kasper, another child of Jan and Justyna, born 1826.
You can find it on image 3 of the same link I gave you above.
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Posted: Yesterday at 7:05 am
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One more! This is Tomasz, born in 1828. Same link as above, go to image 66.
An important detail is that all of these are from Ūdrijos Švč. Jėzaus Širdies bažnyčia rather than Alytaus Šv. Angelų Sargų bažnyčia which you had cited.
I am now officially out of coffee.
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jangle1
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Posted: 20 hours ago at 2:58 pm
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Hi Sophia! How advantageous for me that you had such a nice cup of coffee this morning lol! I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me to keep looking in other birth records, but thank you for taking a look to find and share these with me, I really appreciate it!
1830 does seem a bit late compared to the other four children, that is quite a long span of having children. That makes me curious if they had any between the 6 year gap of the metrical books from 1820-1826 and if part of the reason they seem to have had so many children is because some unfortunately passed away (or if it is an instance of Catholic ideas on procreation...). Thank you also for helping to confirm that the Alytaus church was not the right one! Even if they don't have as many records available, it is great to have eliminated a potential.
I also looked into the Kurpie Projekt that you shared with me, and I think it helped answer a question I just discovered that I had! I recently found that a suspected ancestor of mine was born in 1915 in Mikanovich, Igumansk, Minsk region, now in Belarus. This surprised me, especially as her parents were born in the Jackonys/Udrija region in Lithuania and other records I found after 1915 show that they were back in Lithuania 5-10 years later. These still might not be my ancestors but I think it makes a good case! My ancestor Stanislavas Krutulis, son of Stanislavas and Dominyka, was born about 1864 and his wife was born about 1884. If I were to assume that the record from Kurpie Projekt was dated 1915, that would make this record's Stanislavas and Marijona born about 1865 and 1882 respectively, which matches very closely my known ancestors. Further still, there child Anelė Krutulis was born 16 December, 1915 in a village called Mikanovich, Minsk region, which closely matches the village name from the Kurpie document. Assuming this record was made around 1915, it would make sense that Anelė was not included as she wasn't born yet. Lastly, there is a record in the same family of a Dominika aged 80. 1915-80=1835 which is the birth date for my Dominyka's husband, Stanislavas. This also makes me want to believe that Dominyka was still alive in 1915 and with her son Stanislavas. This would also explain why there is no husband with her as I have a parish record demonstrating Stanislavas' death in 1910. When looking at the archive from the Kurpie Projekt I found that a possible explanation for their move and my ancestor's birth in Mikanovich was fleeing a war. The displaced persons are said to be Polish war refugees in Russia and the report was titled Central Citizens' Committee of the Kingdom of Poland (in Petrograd).
I feel so excited to discover so much information, thank you again for all your help!
~jerry
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: 1 hour ago at 10:49 am
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Hi again Jerry,
Do you already have this?
This is the marriage of Jakob Krutul and Roza Zwyrblowna in 1833. The church is Balbieriškio Švč. Mergelės Marijos Rožančiaus Romos katalikų bažnyčia.
Here is the link:
https://www.epaveldas.lt/preview?id=1041%2F1%2F1 and go to image 78 for the record
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