Since I do not know much about the Lithuanian language - finding the correct spellings of names was a bit of a mystery - I was fortunate to find a Lithuanian Genealogy Yahoo group and the members have been extremely helpful! It is much easier to begin the search for family with an online group of likeminded individuals. I found the group through the Lithuanian Global Genealogical Society which is also an excellent resource.
Surnames in Lithuanian are subject to numerous suffixes which tell something about the person like male or female, married or unmarried. I noticed that several letters from my grandfathers sister Isabella had different endings like Stankus, Stankai and Stankiene. I sent a message to the yahoo group and received some excellent clarification.
"for married who's husband is STANKUS - would be Izabele Stankiene.
if you say my family is Stankus, in Lithuania we say: my family is STANKAI.
Juozas Greivys, married - Greiviene, maden Greivyte"
I also found an entry in Wikipedia on Lithuanian names and and excellent article from Lituanis journal if you would like to read more about it.
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