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The LitvakSIG, Inc. 2008 Team

President - Howard Margol
Treasurer - Eden Joachim
Secretary - David Blass Hoffman, Ph.D

Members-at-large :

   Gene Alpert
   Judy Baston
   Rose Lerer Cohen
   Michael A. Posnick
   Aaron Roetenberg


Non-board positions :

   Online Journal Editor - Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan
   Membership chairman - Gene Alpert
   Webmaster - Dave Lewak

SIG project team

Uyezd Research Groups
(all Districts of former Kovno and Vilna guberniyas)

Dorothy Leivers - coordinator

Uyezd/District Research Groups
The uyezd or district was the administrative level at which the revision and family lists were organized. The district groups deal with revision lists, family lists, tax lists and other non vital records.

We encourage people to join together as uyezd groups to acquire records, and to enter this extremely valuable genealogical information into the "All Lithuania Database" (ALD).

As our individual genealogical and historical research progresses, many of us discover that our ancestors did not come from just one place. They moved from shtetl to shtetl for a variety of reasons. The effects of fires, plagues, famine, and pogroms were all part of this mobility.

Dorothy's team:

Uyezd Coordinators
Diszna Batya Olsen
Kaunas (Kovno) Rabbi Ben-Zion Saydman
Lida Judy Baston
(For non-uyezd research see Lida listing under Shtetl Research Groups)
Oshmiany (Asmiany) Coordinator Needed
Panevezys (Ponevezh) Michael Witkin
Raseiniai (Rosseiny) Sam Aaron
Siauliai (Shavli) Deena A. Berton
Telsiai (Telshi) Deena A. Berton
Trakai (Troki) Jose M. Gutstein
Ukmerge (Vilkomir) Richard Winer
Vilnius (Vilna) Eden Joachim  
Zarasai (Novoalexandrovsk) Paul Hattori

 

 

 

Vital Records Translation Team

 

Joel Ratner - Coordinator & VRT Project Lead

 

Mission Statement:

The Vital Records Indexing Project seeks to raise monies for the purpose of funding the translation of approximately 800,000 Lithuanian Jewish Vital records from the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The translations produced as Excel format spreadsheets are distributed to qualified donors. We primarily seek qualifying donors for each town [$100+] as well as major contributors wishing to create challenge grants although all contributions are welcome. The translated records are eventually uploaded to the All-Lithuania Database [ALD] as prescribed by LitvakSIG policy. The current policy allows translations to go online one year after qualifying donors receive their translations.

 

Joel's team:
Joel Ratner - Vilna, Suvalki gubernias and Vilkija, Kaunas and Vilijampole
Cheryl Sofer, Shtetl Coordinator, Moletai
Tova Jaffe, Shtetl Coordinator, Shirvint
Illona Hope, Shtetl Coordinator, Vilijampole
Aaron Roetenberg - Kaunas Gubernia excluding Vilkija, Vilijampole, Kedian and Kaunas
Chaim Luria, Shtetl Coordinator, Pumpenai & Pasvalys
Barry Mann, Shtetl Coordinator, Zeimelis
David & Sonia Hoffman, Shtetl Coordinator, Ariogala, Babtai, Cekiske, Dotnuva, Rumsiskis, Grinkiskis, Seredzius
Susan Cooper, Shtetl Coordinator - Varniai
Olga Zabludoff, Shtetl Coordinator, Keidan
Jose Gutstein - Shtetl Coordinator,  Zasliai
Dorothy Leivers - Coordinator non filmed records from the metrical archive

 

 

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