Litauen: Sterberegister verschiedener Städte, 1845-1940

Lithuania, Jewish Death Records from Various Towns, 1845-1940

Quelleninformationen

LitvakSIG
JewishGen volunteers, comp. Litauen: Sterberegister verschiedener Städte, 1845-1940 [Datenbank online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Ursprüngliche Daten: This data is provided by LitvakSIG, an independent organization, in partnership wiith JewishGen.org. Some of these records are also available on Family History Library microfilm rolls (listed below), Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Litauen: Sterberegister verschiedener Städte, 1845-1940

Diese Datenbank enthält über 9'000 Todesfälle aus ausgewählten litauischen Städten aus den Jahren 1845-1940. Zu den Informationen in den Aufzeichnungen gehören: Name des Verstorbenen, Namen der Eltern, Name des Ehepartners, Todesursache, Sterbedatum, Wohnort und Quelle.

This database contains over 9,000 deaths from the following Lithuanian towns:

TownYear(s)FHL Microfilm NumberNumber of Records
Kupiškis
Kupishok		1871-18752288941/696
1876-81, 1883-842288942/1308
18862270647/366
1887, 1889-90, 1892, 1894, 1897-982288942/2338
1891, 1895, 1899-1900, 1906-142331378/3,7,11483
1920-40Not microfilmed257
Linkuva
Linkeve		1914, 1923-26Not microfilmed69
Moletai
Maliat		1853-57, 1859-722157999/1; others456
1898, 1900-02, 1904-152205091/3596
Panevežys
Ponevezh		1872-742205129/2-3234
1876-792270245/5436
1925-40Not microfilmed1,588
Pumpenai
Pompian		1854-56, 1859-612157999/1; others82
1865-802205128/3-4; 2270245/2516
1902-03, 1905-072199343/1 & 3; 2199344/1125
Pušalotas
Pushelot		1883-19122238521/2245
1924-39Not microfilmed27
Raseiniai
Rasayn		18452157888/2224
Rokiškis
Rakishok		1874-96, 1922-39Not microfilmed1,680
Šilale
Shilel		1922-39Not microfilmed269
Širvintos
Shirvint		1854-72Various147
Vilkija
Vilki		1881-922291673/2295
Žeimelis
Zhemel		1859-60, 18622192859/332
18642187654/417
1865-71, 1873-752205127/2-3202
1876-802270470/199
1882-98Not microfilmed265
1913-14, 1925-26Not microfilmed33

About the Records:

According to the Regulations of 1835 in the Russian Empire, one of the duties of an official state rabbi (a "crown rabbi") was to carry out, solely by his offices, all the rites of circumcision and naming of infants, weddings, dissolution of marriages, and burials "(in populous cities a rabbi could have assistants to carry out those rites)"; to keep metrical books in all its sections and to submit copies of them annually to gubernia authorities, in Hebrew and Russian language.

The records during the Czarist period (i.e. those before 1918) were written in both Russian (Cyrillic alphabet) and Hebrew script, although some records are in Russian language only. The records during the period of Lithuanian independence (i.e. those created between 1919 and 1940) were written in the Lithuanian language, with some Hebrew and Yiddish.

Information listed in this database typically includes:

  • Name of the deceased: Surname and Given Name(s). Where there are two names separated by a slash ("/"), one is transliterated from the Russian, one from the Hebrew (in the pre-WWI Czarist records); or the second name in square brackets is the Lithuanian nominative form (in the post-WWI records).

  • Father's Name

  • Mother's Name

  • Spouse: Given Name(s) and surname of surviving spouse, if listed

  • Date of Death: Day, month and year of death, in dd/mm/ccyy format. (See Notes on Dates below)

  • Hebrew Date: Day and month of death, according to the Jewish calendar

  • Cause of Death

  • Age of the deceased

  • Place of death: Town, Uyezd (district) and Gubernia (province)

  • Place of residence: The town where the deceased resided

  • Comments

    •
  • Place Recorded: the town where the death was recorded

  • Year: the year that the death was registered

  • Record: the registration number of death (number is proceeded by "F" for female or "M" for male)

  • Microfilm / Item: the FHL microfilm number and microfilm item number, if a microfilmed record; or "Not Microfilmed" if not

  • Image #: The Image number on microfilm, if available (this will enable you to locate the record on the microfilm)

  • Archive / Fond: The Archive and Fond citation — the source of the death record. "LVIA" = Lietuvos Valstybės Istorijos Archyvas (Lithuanian State Historical Archives), in Vilnius; "KRA" = Kaunas Regional Archives