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I also have that his wife was from Kovno, Lithuania (not sure if that is correct...info is from my father-in-law.) They must have lived close together when they met because I'm sure people back then didn't travel like we do now. Any ideas?
A member from the Lithuanian forum sent me this:
The root of the village name is obviously "aleks-", as in the Lithuanian given name Aleksandras, Alexander in English. Lithuanian does not use the letter "x" but rather "ks" for that sound. The ending seem more Slavic than Lithuanian, though the sound "dz" is indeed a one of the alphabetic sounds. However, Lithuanian names of towns generally end in "-us", "-is", "-ai", "-a", etc., never in "-dz."
There seem to me to be two possibilities: either a town or village name like Aleksandrava or Aleksandravas (of which there are several in Lithuania), or, to me, the more likely, Aleksotas in the Kaunas district. The latter sounds closest to Alexodz, if you kind of scrunch up the "tas" it sounds like "dz".
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