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. We organize a number of geographic-specific project groups whose primary purpose is to identify and collect data from available records for Lithuania from the Russian Empire Period and Independent Lithuania. Contributors to our projects gain access to the data we collect in Excel format. This LitvakSIG.org website is our platform for providing the information we collect and our searchable databases to the public.
In addition, we host a prassword-protected website for our Dues-Paying Membership Litvaksigmembersonlysite.shutterfly.com, which has additional content including records, catalogs of selected Lithuanian Archives, and scholarly articles.
Some highlights of our work include the
- All Lithuania Database (ALD), a free, searchable database that currently has over 1.1 million records and is updated quarterly.
- The LitvakSIG Online Journal, an edited, online journal with articles of interest to people researching their Litvak heritage.
- And the LitvakSIG Discussion List (“LitvakSIG Digest”), a moderated Internet discussion forum for the exchange of information on Litvak genealogy research.
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LitvakSIG POLICY CHANGE FOR DISTRICT RESEARCH GROUPS
The new district research group structure became effective January 1, 2012.
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Frequent Site Users:
We hope to re-establish this information in the near future. Thanks for your patience.
Welcome! We suggest you start with the Family Research Page of our site. It will help you get oriented and explain the basic information you need to identify to leverage our site and LitvakSIG to its fullest. We also suggest you read the About LitvakSIG section, paying special attention to the Projects and Data Page.You may also need to refer to our Glossary since you may not be familiar with the many Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian terms that are used throughout the site, especially if this is your first foray into Jewish genealogy research.
Assuming you know your family shtetl(s) of interest or your family surname, you can dive into our All Lithuania Database to search for records. If you know your shtetl(s) of interest, you will want to learn about LitvakSIG projects that are collecting data for your ancestral shtetl(s). You can do that on the Projects and Data , District Research ,Vital Records , and Special Projects Pages. Once you have found your projects of interest,consider joining LitvakSIG and contributing to one or more LitvakSIG projects so you can get access to the data in Excel format.
We’ve incorporated a number of “deep links” in the horizontal menu bar, vertical menu bar, and footer to help you get where you want to go fast: the All Lithuania Database, Shtetl Database, Lithuania Given Names Database, Archives and Repositories, FAQs, etc.
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