The LitvakSIG Vilna Gubernia Vital Records Translation Project (VRT) is
pleased to announce the largest single submission of Litvak vital records
for incorporation into LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database, as well as the
JewishGen Lithuania Database. Last week, 89,168 records were sent to JGen
for testing prior to making these records live in the aforementioned
databases. These records will go "live" in several days.
The submitted records include those in the following list:
Town Record Year(s)
Bagaslaviskis B 1873, 1877 - 1879, 1885, 1886
M 1854 - 1861, 1863 - 1870, 1872
D 1854 - 1856, 1858 - 1870, 1872
Butrimonys B 1866 - 1884, 1888 - 1890, 1893 - 1912, 1914
Gelvan B 1854 - 1872
M 1854, 1856 - 1860, 1863, 1865 - 1872
D 1854 - 1872
Merkine B 1856, 1860, 1863 - 1867, 1869, 1872 - 1875, 1877
Mikailiskis B 1854 - 1872, 1884 - 1887, 1923 - 1938
Nemunaitis M 1857, 1861, 1865 - 1867, 1870 - 1877, 1883 - 1889,
1891 - 1894, 1896 - 1903, 1906, 1909, 1912, 1913
D 1863, 186, 1867, 1870 - 1877, 1889 - 1892, 1894,
1896 - 1911, 1913
V 1871
Shchuchin B 1896 - 1914
Snipiskes B 1894, 1895, 1899
Stakliskes B 1854, 1855, 1857, 1871 - 1886, 1889 - 1893,
1895 - 1897, 1899 - 1908, 1910 - 1914
D 1854 - 1857, 1871 - 1887, 1889 - 1896, 1898 - 1900,
1902 - 1908, 1910 - 1913
Vilna B 1839 - 1853, 1860, 1866 - 1873, 1891 - 1900
D 1837 - 1850, 1861 - 1871, 1878, 1879, 1881 - 1884, 1886 - 1900
Zasliai B 1873, 1877 - 1879, 1885, 1886
D 1871, 1874
Ziezmariai B 1878 - 1885, 1887 - 1893, 1896 - 1904, 1906 - 1914, 1915
D 1855, 1866, 1878 - 1891, 1893 - 1896, 1900 - 1906, 1909,
1910, 1912 - 1914
Other Vilna gubernia towns represented in the filmed records include:
Antokol
Darshunishok
Daugai
Eishishok
Kernave
Moletai
Nemencine
Novodvor
Novygorod
Olkeniki
Orlya
Podberezhe
Radun
Shirvint
Varena
Vieves
Vilna County
Additional unfiilmed records exist for many towns in what was Vilna
gubernia in Imperial times. Additional information on the records
submitted as well as other existing Vilna gubernia vital records can
be obtained by sending an inquiry to joelrat1@...
Joel Ratner
Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group
Coordinator, LitvakSIG Vilna gubernia Vital Records Translation Project
