Jonava
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Jonava
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Genealogical Records
Frances Melamed described Jonava in her
autobiographical book, Jonava. Randburg Corporation has posted information about contemporary
Lithuania, including pictures and a description of Kaunas
District (which includes Jonava) and several modern businesses
in Jonava, Jonava
Grain Company, Bega
Stevedoring Company, and Achema
Chemical Company. Use your web browser's "Back" button to
return to this page. The University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda
Library has posted maps of Lithuania showing the administrative districts and
the main road and railways.
View them here.
Jonava Home Page
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Surnames in Birth Records (1851-1900)
The Jonava Research Group has translated almost 5,000 birth records from Jonava. If you would like to join this group, please contact Peggy Mosinger Freedman.
Surnames in 1874 Family List
The 1874 Family List of Jonava was translated as a project of the Jonava Research Group in LitvakSig.
LitvakSig has included these names in the All Lithuania Database.
Surnames in 1893 Craftsmen List
In 1893, the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs surveyed the craftsmen of
Kaunas Gubernia. Anatoly Chayesh has studied these records extensively.
(See his article on the LitvakSIG On Line Journal. Use your web browser's "Back" button to
return to this page.) The Jonava Research Group has translated the surveys for Jonava. This is a list of surnames mentioned in the Craftsmen
Survey.
Cemetery Index
Peggy Mosinger Freedman indexed the remaining graves in the Jonava Cemetery.
HaMelitz Database
View the 81 donors from Jonava in the "HaMelitz" database.
For more information about this database, click here.
Jewish Genealogical Family Finder
Look for others researching your family names. Use your web browser's "Back" button to
return to this page.
Personal Stories
Sue Atkinson described her visit
to Jonava in the summer of 2000.
Izchak Judelevitch told the history
of Jonava in a chapter of the yizkor book, Yizkor book in memory of
the Jewish Community of Yanova.
Pictures of Jonava
Postcards of Jonava that Charles
Fleishman's family brought back from a trip in 1926.
Geography
Jonava is in the Kaunas Uzyed (District) of Kaunas Gebernia,
Lithuania. Kaunas was called Kovno in the 19th century. The name has been spelled variously as
According to Where Once We Walked (Mokotoff and Sack) the Latitude/Longitude
is 55' 05" / 24' 17". There are also a variety of similarly named villages
in Poland.
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Updated by Peggy
Mosinger Freedman, June 10, 2003