Wiktor Weintraub (1954). The poetry of Adam Mickiewicz. Mouton. стр. 11. „Her (Barbara Mickiewicz) maiden name was Majewska. In old Lithuania, every baptised Jew became ennobled, and there were Majewskis of Jewish origin. That must have been the reason for the rumours, repeated by some of the poet's contemporaries, that Mickiewicz's mother was a Jewess by origin. However, genealogical research makes such an assumption rather improbable”
Czesław Milosz (2000). The Land of Ulro. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. стр. 116. ISBN978-0-374-51937-7. „The mother's low social status—her father was a land steward—argues against a Frankist origin. The Frankists were usually of the nobility and therefore socially superior to the common gentry.”
Venclova, Tomas. „Native Realm Revisited: Mickiewicz's Lithuania and Mickiewicz in Lithuania”. Lituanus. 53 (3): – Fall 2007. Архивирано из оригинала 22. 02. 2015. г. Приступљено 2007-04-24. „This semantic confusion was amplified by the fact that the Nowogródek region, although inhabited mainly by Belarusian speakers, was for several centuries considered part and parcel of Lithuania Propria—Lithuania in the narrow sense; as different from the 'Ruthenian' regions of the Grand Duchy.”
Venclova, Tomas. „Native Realm Revisited: Mickiewicz's Lithuania and Mickiewicz in Lithuania”. Lituanus. 53 (3): – Fall 2007. Архивирано из оригинала 22. 02. 2015. г. Приступљено 2007-04-24. „This semantic confusion was amplified by the fact that the Nowogródek region, although inhabited mainly by Belarusian speakers, was for several centuries considered part and parcel of Lithuania Propria—Lithuania in the narrow sense; as different from the 'Ruthenian' regions of the Grand Duchy.”