Lithuania Vital Records

Research Wiki Lithhuania Vital Records From FamilySearch Wiki Jump to: navigation, search LITHUANIA DATABASE This site contains over 400,000 Lithuanian names.The categories are: REVISION / FAMILY / CENSUS LISTS TABLE 1765-early 20th century” old Vilna Kovno guberniyas Family Lists Census Lists District Merchants’ Lists Craftsmen’s Guilds Lists Farmer Lists Town Resident Lists Also contains most towns in modern day: Disna Kaunas Lida Oshmiany Panevezys Raseniai Siauliai Telsiai Trakai Ukmerge Vilnius Examples of lists from these areas: Jews originally living in Vilnius Guberniya now living in Kaunas Guberniya Jews registered in Kaunas Guberniya living in Vilnius Guberniya Jews originally from Kaunas Guberniya who were expelled from Riga, Latvia TAX VOTERS TABLE Voter Lists From: Lists of electors of rabbis Municipal electors Those listed as eligible to vote for the Russian Parliament (Duma) Types of Lists The Voter Lists records come from: Jewish community candle and box taxes Business taxes Savings book information Real estate taxes VITAL RECORDS Birth Marriage Divorce Death VILNA GHETTO INDEX Name and addresses DIRECTORIES TABLE Private original databases Indexes of names appearing within Lithuanian business, street and telephone directories Lists of Lithuanian Jews who survived the Holocaust WW2 Ghetto Arrest Lists / Pages of Testimony (Yad Vashem) EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS- By surviving Jews and Christians Before, during, and after the Holocaust LITHUANIAN MEDICAL PERSONNEL Jewish medical personnel found in Lithuanian medical directories of 1923 and 1925 CEMETERY RECORDS Kovno Cemetery List (1941-1943) Keidan Cemeteries Database- Tombstone inscriptions from Keidaner cemeteries in Lithuania, New York, and Chicago. HAMAGID LITHUANIAN DONORS 1871-72 Names of 5,000 donors to Persian famine relief HAMELITZ LITHUANIAN AND LATVIAN DONORS- 1893 TO 1903 Names of about 20,000 Lithuanian and Latvian charity donors SUGIHARA DATABASE Names and visa dates of 2,139 Lithuanian, Polish, German, and Russian Jews, saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in 1940 KELME DATABASE Indexes to archival and published records from Kelme, 1816-1944 VSIA VILNA 1915 DATABASE 17,400 entries from the 1915 city directory for Vilnius, Lithuania SEARCH THE ALD DATABASE Click on desired database SEARCH LITHUANIA GIVEN NAMES DATABASE Jewish given names used in Lithuania 1795-1925 WEBSITE http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/all.htm