Useful Links

The JewishGen Lithuania Database is a multiple-database search, containing more than more than 1.8 million entries from Lithuania which incorporates all of the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), HaMagid Lithuanian Donors 1871-72, HaMelitz Lithuanian and Latvian Donors, Lithuanian Medical Personnel, Sugihara Database, 1897 Census for Lithuania, Lithuania Internal Passports, 1919-1940, Revision Lists, Tax and Voters Lists and much more. . The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/ 

Translation of “Raseyn” chapter from Yahadut Lita (Lithuanian Jewry), Vol. 3

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania2/lit2_00359.html

Raseiniai - Protecting Our Litvak Heritage

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Lithuania6/Lit6_230.html

Jews in Kaunas guberniya 

http://www.archyvai.lt/exhibitions/kz_en/paroda.htm

International Jewish Cemetery Project - Description of the Raseiniai Cemetery 

http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/lithuania/raseiniai.html

Centropa.  ‘My Family History’  

http://www.centropa.org/biography/tobijas-jafetas

LitvakSIG is the primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish ("Litvak") genealogy research worldwide

https://www.litvaksig.org

JewishGen InfoFile Index JewishGen InfoFiles provide information at your fingertips on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research.  InfoFiles are a service of JewishGen, made possible by its many global participants. 

http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles

What did it cost to travel?  Rates from the HAMBURG AMERICAN PACKET CO. for travel from the interior of Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Hamburg (Germany) and Havre (France). January 1885. 

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20091023001ha/20091023001ha.pdf 

For more info on travel costs, look at:- 

http://www.polishroots.org/Portals/0/Gendobry/GenDobry_IX_9.pdf?ver=2015-06-20-224108-510   

Overview of archive documents pertaining to Jews

A Selected Overview of Documents in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives Pertaining to Jewish Institutions/Organizations.

http://www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/B&LChInsertGalina.pdf

American Jewish Archives

Ghetto Fighter's House Museum

The Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem

Maps of Lithuania going back to the year 1500

A wide range of maps of the area

http://lithuanianmaps.com/index.html

Map of 1552

People of a Thousand Towns

online photographic database - requires you to join (free)

Good picture of Cattle Street and the Kalte Synagogue

http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/default.asp

Sephardic Jews in Lithuania and Latvia by Kevin Alan Brook  

http://www.khazaria.com/sephardim-baltics.html

Resource Guide: Searching for your Jewish Ancestors in Lithuania 

http://genealogy.org.il/resources/resource-guide-lithuania/ 

Routes to Routes Foundation is a family history and genealogy guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe. Click on the map of Lithuania and follow the subjects you would like. The site is rich in useful tools and archival information.  http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml