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Skip to Content Change Text Size or Colors Enable Accessibility Optimized Style Search LitvakSIG Home About Us Our Leadership LitvakSIG Board Positions Volunteer Opportunities Thank you Volunteers Our Activities Our Bylaws Research District/Gubernia Research Collective Data Disna District Research Group Kaunas District Research Group Klaipeda District Research Group Lida District Research Group Oshmiany District Research Group Panevezys District Research Group Raseiniai District Research Group Siauliai District Research Group Suwalki Gubernia Research Group Svencionys District Research Group Telsiai District Research Group Trakai District Research Group Ukmerge District Research Group Vilnius District Research Group Zarasai District Research Group Family Research Special Projects Internal Passports Vilnius Household Registers Project - Home Page LitvakSIG Discussion List MACEVA JewishGen ID Research and Translation Continuity Fund LitvakSIG Jewish Family Roll of Honor Grand Duchy of Lithuania GDL GDL Following the Paper Trail GDL Transcriptions Shtetl Map & List Information and Tools About our records Types of Records in the ALD Archives & Repositories Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA) Lithuanian Central Civil Metrical Archives (CMA) Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCVA) Lithuanian Special Archives (LYA) Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Kaunas Regional State Archives (KRA) Memel (Klaipeda) Archive Central State Moscow Historical Archives (CIMA) Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGM) Panevezys Archives St. Petersburg Archives (RGIA) YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Polish State Archives National Historic Archives of Belarus US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Arolsen Archives FAQ Given Names Database LitvakSIG Online Journal Image Library Books Internet Links Audio / Video Glossary All Lithuania Database About the ALD ALD Search Form Finding your record in FHL films Membership and Contributions About Contribute / Join Details Lithuanian-Jewish Special Interest Group Dedicated to discovering and preserving our Litvak Heritage About Us Our Leadership LitvakSIG Board Positions Volunteer Opportunities Thank you Volunteers Our Activities Our Bylaws Research District/Gubernia Research Collective Data Disna District Research Group Kaunas District Research Group Klaipeda District Research Group Lida District Research Group Oshmiany District Research Group Panevezys District Research Group Raseiniai District Research Group Siauliai District Research Group Suwalki Gubernia Research Group Svencionys District Research Group Telsiai District Research Group Trakai District Research Group Ukmerge District Research Group Vilnius District Research Group Zarasai District Research Group Family Research Special Projects Internal Passports Vilnius Household Registers Project - Home Page LitvakSIG Discussion List MACEVA JewishGen ID Research and Translation Continuity Fund LitvakSIG Jewish Family Roll of Honor Grand Duchy of Lithuania GDL GDL Following the Paper Trail GDL Transcriptions Shtetl Map & List Information and Tools About our records Types of Records in the ALD Archives & Repositories Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA) Lithuanian Central Civil Metrical Archives (CMA) Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCVA) Lithuanian Special Archives (LYA) Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Kaunas Regional State Archives (KRA) Memel (Klaipeda) Archive Central State Moscow Historical Archives (CIMA) Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGM) Panevezys Archives St. Petersburg Archives (RGIA) YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Polish State Archives National Historic Archives of Belarus US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Arolsen Archives FAQ Given Names Database LitvakSIG Online Journal Image Library Books Internet Links Audio / Video Glossary All Lithuania Database About the ALD ALD Search Form Finding your record in FHL films Membership and Contributions About Contribute / Join Details Please make your selection on the left Search the site: press enter or click here Login to Your Account Join/Contribute Contribute to our Research Groups , Special Projects or Pay Dues Participate in LitvakSIG's Vilnius Household Registers Find Out More Participate in LitvakSIG's Research and Translation Continuity Fund View Honor Roll Help us achieve our initial $100,000 goal Find Out More LitvakSIG is the primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish ("Litvak") genealogy research worldwide. Our mission is to preserve Litvak heritage by discovering, collecting, documenting and disseminating information about the once vibrant Jewish community of Lithuania. LitvakSIG has long-term relationships with the archives in Lithuania. In addition to translating records that are relevant to all parts of Lithuania, we also maintain a number of geographic-specific Research Groups (often referred to as "District Research Groups", or "DRGs"). The primary mission of a Research Group is to identify and collect data for that group’s territorial area of interest from available records for Lithuania from the Russian Empire Period (1795 to First World War) and the period of Independent Lithuania (1919-1940) including Vilna Guberniya. A contributor to a Research Group or Project gains advance access to the data collected by the group or project. The data is typically provided in Excel format. Note regarding Covid-19 closure: The reading rooms in the Lithuanian Archives are closed at least until the end of March 2021, due to Covid-19 concerns. Therefore, if you’re looking to visit the archives in person, or hiring a researcher to go to the archives on your behalf, that will not be possible during this period. While at least some of the staff is still working, some of the work that LitvakSIG does may be delayed a bit (if it requires direct visitation by our volunteers). Communications with archives staff may not be affected by this, but it will depend on the specific requests. Access to the archives for source records for Vilnius Internal Passports will likely be delayed during this period. None of this affects your access to LitvakSIG’s website, spreadsheets (for donors), or the All Lithuanian Database. For more information about the archives and Covid-19, go to this webpage from the Lithuanian Ministry of Health: Covid Status Update or the check the archives homepage at: Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania . The highlight of our work is the: All Lithuania Database (ALD) is a free, searchable database that currently has more than 2,000,000 records and is updated quarterly. LitvakSIG thanks its volunteers who make it all possible Note to all members, donors, and contributors about accessing various areas of the website: After you log in (using the green "login to your account" tab on the right), you will be taken to your login page. On the left is a green tab saying "member’s dashboard". Click on that link and you will then be taken to a page that displays links to all sections of the website to which you have access. For example, if you’re a "member", you’ll see a link to the "members" area of the website. If you’re a DRG donor, you’ll see a link to "Collective Data" as well as to each DRG to which you have access. For step by step instructions on downloading the Excel spreadsheets to which you have access, click on " download instructions.pdf ". IF you are accessing LitvakSIG.org and do not see or cannot find the "login to your account" button, you can go directly to it by entering " donors.litvaksig.org ". If you have any technical questions about the use of this website, please contact our webmaster at webmaster@litvaksig.org . ************************************************************************************ Vilnius Household Registers Project ("VHR") NEW! Nov. 14, 2020 - Batch 13 of the VHR is now available. Download the free batch preview from the VHR home page . The batch preview is our initiative to make it easy for you to figu...