Users of the LitvakSIG All-Lithuania Database (ALD) may have noticed some recent changes. As we bring the ALD into alignment with behind-the-scenes technical changes at JewishGen, which hosts the ALD,

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To Jan McDonald's questions: 1. Yes, -/- means the record wasn't microfilmed (at least at the time the translation was done). 2. The archival citation (NHABMinsk/2412/1/1, or whatever) is included, or

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The record you want is the last one on the right side of this image. The key to finding it, once you get close, is the record number, M96 (96th male in this list). The female and male record numbers a

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LitvakSIG held a virtual birds-of-a-feather program on March 13 focusing on internal and foreign passport applications and the Vilnius household registers project. The content of these record sets was

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According to the Russian side, the newborn was Zelman. His father was Movsha MIKLISHANSKIY, son of Mendel, from Butrimonys. Zelman's mother was Sora Rivka (no maiden name), daughter of Mordukh. The da

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The LitvakSIG BOF for Passports and Vilnius Household Registers is coming up this Sunday. You can still register using one of the links in the original post, quoted below. PLEASE NOTE THIS CLARIFICATI

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If your relatives were anywhere in Lithuania during the interwar years, you won't want to miss the upcoming LitvakSIG Birds-of-a-Feather session focusing on passport applications and Vilnius household

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The 1813 Vilna City revision list was translated by LitvakSIG and posted to the All-Lithuania database several months ago. The archival reference for this revision list is LVIA/515/15/193, which means

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Harlan, LitvakSIG has indexed well over 2 million records and made them freely available through our own website (www.litvaksig.org/search-ald) and via JewishGen. Among these are the extant birth reco

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Maybe Austria. Or could it be Oest. Gal meaning east(ern) Galicia? Russ Maurer Pepper Pike, OH

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Also, the website, https://searchformajorplagge.com/ is definitely worth examining. It is especially rich in testimonies and interviews, and includes its own list of 1234 HKP prisoners and their fates

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Hi Mindy, There is no comprehensive list, but quite a bit of fragmentary information from items such as work group lists, daily sick lists, and the like. These were all researched and assembled into a

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I see zamordowany przez szizal...murdered by ? Google doesn't seem to recognize szizal or anything close to it, which would be the murder instrument. Maybe I'm misreading it. Russ Maurer

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I can't improve on Michele Lock's excellent strategies for this particular name search. I think it is helpful for researchers to keep in mind that civil records were recorded in the prevailing languag

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jackiebaron7, Steve Goldberg, The vast majority of Lithuanian vital records up to the WWWI era were filmed by the Family History Library and are posted on familysearch. However, they are not indexed o

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Hi Marilyn, The record you want is not online, but the FHL is currently in the process of scanning and posting LVIA/515/15. They have already posted up to file 721 and I know the scanning has progress

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Hi Audrey, In 1999, the Genocide & Resistance Research Center of Lithuania published the names and other information of about 30,000 Lithuanians repressed during the Soviet occupation, gathered from v

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Hi June, I am replying to the group because some tips here may be of general interest. I reproduced your search and found that this record came from the Mogilev Birth Index for Boys 1864-1894 Database

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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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