(Summary) Researches in historical anthroponyms of specific regions that are stated in various historical documents, in the aspects of nature and composition, are very relevant. Studies about surnames are rarer. Master‘s paper ,,Surnames in Kursenai parish (according to ,,The Pre-marriage Book“) in 1925–1927“ is one of the works from the latter category. The subject-matter – the surnames in Kursenai parish in 1925–1927 (662 surnames), selected from ,,The Pre-marriage Book“ stored in the archives of Kursenai Church. The purpose of the study is to study the surnames from the compositional (structural) and derivational point of view. The two main tasks were set: 1) to classify the surnames, to identify the dominant type of surname structure in the analyzed region; 2) to discuss the largest resources of surname derivation, to highlight the peculiarities of surname derivation of Kursenai citizens. The main method used in this study – analytic descriptive. The elements comparative and calculation methods were applied to summarize the results of the study. While analyzing the composition (structure) of the surnames one uses types of partial morphemic analysis (for male surnames) and compositional analysis (female surnames). In the first part ,,The overview of anthroponimical studies in Lithuania“ the main Lithuanian anthroponomical studies are discussed. Two study trends were identified: historical anthroponomical and contemporary surnames. In the second part ,,Structure of... [to full text]