JewishGen Lithuania Collection

All Lithuania:

• JewishGen Family Finder
  More than 40,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families in Lithuania.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
  More than 40,000 burial records for Lithuania and Lithuanian landsmanshaft cemeteries worldwide.
• Yizkor Book Necrologies
  22,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs in Yizkor Books for towns in Lithuania.
• HaMagid Lithuanian Donors 1871-72
  Names of 5,000 donors to Persian famine relief, listed in this Hebrew periodical.
• HaMelitz Lithuanian and Latvian Donors
  Names of almost 20,000 Lithuanian and Latvian charity donors, listed in this Hebrew periodical, 1893 to 1903.
• Lithuanian Medical Personnel
  Information about 874 Jewish medical personnel, found in two Lithuanian medical directories, 1923 and 1925.
• Sugihara Database
  Names of 2,139 Lithuanian, Polish, German and Russian Jews, who were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in 1940.
• 1897 Census for Lithuania
  Names of 13,465 Jews residing in Kovna and Vilna Gubernya, extracted from the 1897 census of the Russian Empire.
• Lithuania Internal Passports, 1919-1940  
  Extensive information about nearly 200,000 persons applying for internal passports in Lithuania during the inter-war period.
• Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854
  400 Jewish religious personnel in Vilna and Kovno Gubernias.

Revision Lists More than 1 million records from Reviska Skazka, 19th century Czarist tax censuses.

Tax and Voters Lists More than 400,000 tax and voter records.

Directories 10,000 names from miscellaneous sources.

Vital Records   Extracts of more than 622,000 birth, marriage, divorce and death records from 75 Lithuanian towns.

Vilnius Household Registers   Jewish listings in household registers created in the city of Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) from mid 1919 to early 1940.

Lithuania Holocaust Murders This database consists of lists of Jews drawn up either in advance of their murder or after the fact

Gymnasium Students This database compiles information culled from documents in student records of both public and private gymnasia from the interwar years.

Lithuania Overseas Connections This database focuses on connections and support between people still in the old country and their emigrant relatives and friends.

Kovno Gubernia:

• Kelmė Database
  Indexes to various archival and published records about the town of Kelmė, 1816-1944.

Vilna Gubernia:

• Vilna Gubernia Conscripts Photographs
  Names and photographs of 1,222 Jewish conscripts from Vilna gubernia into the Russian army, 1900-1914.

Vilna Ghetto List 15,000 prisoners of the Vilna Ghetto, May 1942.

1915 Vsia Vilna Directory 18,000 entries from the 1915 city directory of Vilnius.