Civil registration began in East Prussia (including Memelland) in late 1874. The books include some delayed registrations from earlier years, but very few. All the civil registration books from the 19

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Hello Herman, The standard archival designation is organized as archive/fond/inventory/file. Thus the example you gave works out to KRA - the Kaunas regional archive (other archival abbreviations freq

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Hello Miriam, The database you found was created by LitvakSIG from lists found in the Central State Archive of Lithuania, abbreviated LCVA. The translation was done on-site, which means that LitvakSIG

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https://www.amitys.com/webtrees/index.php?ctype=gedcom&ged=Gedcom.ged The page linked above has an option to request a user account to make full use of the site, which is indeed marvelous. My Finnish

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The display is admittedly confusing, but the interpretation is unambiguous (particularly if one looks at the record in the spreadsheet available to donors to the Kaunas district research group of Litv

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Marlise, Marcia, LVIA is where the records would be if they exist. Unfortunately, there are some vital records that have never been found - including the ones Marlise is looking for and indeed the gre

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Uchastok is the transliteration of a Russian word, участок, which means a part of some area, eg, a district, subdistrict, sector, quarter, or something similar. I believe Vilnius was divided into six

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Hello Luciana and Brenda, I am replying to the group as this topic may be of interest to others. Fund 383 in the Lithuanian State Central Archives (LCVA) contains documents related to the Ministry of

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If you don't normally read Lithuania messages on this list, this message is especially for you. It is about the Vilnius household registers, a project of LitvakSIG, and yes, of course Vilnius is in Li

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I do not know when, if ever, there was a census in East Prussia. There are Memel directories for a few years (none particularly close to 1885). They can be accessed at http://www.bork-on-line.de/adres

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Paul, The earliest birth records for Memel that I know of were recorded beginning in December of 1874. However, Memel birth records include some that were recorded on a delayed basis, and there are, i

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I am responding publicly as Amir's questions are of general interest. Question 2 is simpler, so I'll do that first. To find the batch for a particular record, note the address (street and number). We

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I have two comments to add to Peggy's excellent advice. 1. Records that were not filmed when the indexing was done years ago may well have been filmed since that time. It is worth checking. One of the

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Hi Amir, YES! Batches 1-4 have been added to the ALD. Russ Maurer VHR project coordinator

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Jeremy Lichtman's tip is good. Even better, LitvakSIG translated that tax list long ago and it has 25 ZUNDEL/ZUNDELOVICH entries (all males). It's all available on the ALD (www.litvaksig.org/search-al

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Probably Laukuva Russ Maurer Pepper Pike, OH

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Susie, Unfortunately, birth records recorded in Ukmerge are sparse. There is 1895, which has been indexed, and then 1922-1939, which have not been indexed yet because of 100-year privacy. That's it, u

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The link to the LitvakSIG website that I gave doesn't direct properly. This one should work better: https://www.litvaksig.org Russ Maurer

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Michele, I am replying to the group as the reply may be of interest to others. The record group you are asking about was translated for LitvakSIG about eight or nine years ago, by a translator who did

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It seems to me, whatever language keyboard you have set would be the language that any genealogy program would take. Am I missing something? I just tried it out with GenoPro, the tree program I use, a

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