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This project aims to identify founders, notable teachers, and students of Vilnius University from 1579 to the present day. If in your family tree you have an individual who was a notable professor, administrator, or student of high professional achievement (later in life), whose education was associated with Vilnius University, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the ...
Terminology of archival records keeping in different languages: Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Russian. This project is aimed to assist researchers in understanding the terminology used in archival documents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire. If you are working with archival records of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire, please join and participate ...
1863 January Uprising - Lithuanian and Polish revolt against Imperial Russia. Started in 1862, suppressed by the Russian Imperial Army in 1864. Uprising participants were harshly punished: nobility titles were removed, property confiscated, and people executed, imprisoned, or sent to exile. Some escaped and lived their remaining years in foreign countries. Please add profiles of participants ...
This project aims to identify founders, notable teachers and students of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas from 1922 to present day. Timeline of Major Events in VMU History* 1922 – University of Lithuania is established in Kaunas* 1930 – University of Lithuania is granted the name of Vytautas Magnus.* 1950 – Vytautas Magnus University is closed.* 1989 – Vytautas Magnus University is re-estab...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. It was an independent city until 1855, when it was ann...
Tracing Lithuanian Jewish FamiliesTrying to locate and map out Lithuanian families: Zisman, Zausman, Levin(e), Jaffe, Yoffe, Kader, and other various versions and many other names. == Jaffe Family Read about the history of the illustrious Yaffe family starting from 15th century Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe and Descendants in Lithuania and Galicia in " An Ancient lineage: European Roots of a Jewish Fami...
This project aims to identify notable people of Tatar and Kataim descent, whose family roots, life, education, achievements are associated with Lithuania.If in your family tree you have an individual that was a Lithuanian Tatar or Karaim known for her/his life achievements, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile description there would be brief biography.* Within o...
Lithuanian Americans who are Americans by citizen but are of Lithuanian descent or were born in Lithuania. Lithuanians began coming to the US as early as 17th century. Until about 1870s immigrants from the Lithuanian territory were mostly noble. Towards the end of 19th century peasant Lithuanians started to settle in the mining areas of the US such as Pennsylvania and other industrial areas lik...
Starostwo Haienskiego. Powiat Miński, Województwo Mińskie, Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie. Rzeczpospolita Projekt ten opowiada o Starostwo Haienskiego i jego mieszkańcach, którzy zamieszkiwali wsie wchodzące w skład starostwa przed okupacją rosyjską w 1793 roku. Mieszkańcy zostali uwzględnieni na podstawie wzmianek w inwentarzach (1738 roku, 1765 roku, 1789 roku) i księgach metrykalnych cerkwi grec...
The Order of Vytautas the Great is the Lithuanian Presidential Award. It may be conferred on the heads of Lithuania and foreign states, as well as their citizens, for distinguished services to the State of Lithuania.The Order was instituted in 1930 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas the Great. The badge of the Order, struck in pre-war Lithuan...
This Jewish Town Project attempts to identify and collect Jewish individuals from or connected to Memel, Ostpreussen, now known as Klaipėda in Lithuania.The history of the Jewish community in Memel is relatively young and marked by many political changes. In the 19th century German Jews and immigrants from the Pale of Settlement met here. Especially after the First World War, when the area was ...
The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia[9] led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation. If in your ...
Project Masters of Visual Arts of Lithuania is created to honour notable Lithuanian representatives of visual arts, other than those that require stage.Please add profiles to the project, if they were:* weavers* painters* designers* photographers* graphic artists* goldsmiths* blacksmiths* poster makers* wood carvers* sculptors* textile designers and other similar artists.Only public profiles ma...
If in your family tree you have persons who were Lithuanian Army Officers, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description there would be a brief biography. In 1940 Lithuanian armed forces had 17 general officers, 1800 officers , 30 078 non-commissioned officers and soldiers Ranks of officers were Lieutenant Senior lieutenant Captain Lieutenan...
The Order of the Cross of Vytis (Lithuanian: Vyčio Kryžiaus ordinas) is a Lithuanian presidential award conferred for heroic defense of Lithuania's freedom and independence. November 23 is a holiday in honor of the Order of the Cross of Vytis. This order was founded on July 30, 1919, in Kaunas, Lithuania. If in your family tree, you have a person who received the order of the Cross of Vytis, ...
The goal of this project is to assist researchers of Lithuanian genealogy in better understanding and recognizing given names used in the various languages found in Lithuanian Catholic Church parish records. The given names you will encounter for Lithuanians have varied origins. Some are used in many other areas of the world and have equivalents in other languages, while others originated with...
The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices. Foreign nationals may also be awarded this Order. The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas was instituted in 1928. It features the Columns of Gediminas, one of the national symbols of Li...
This project aims to identify officers of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army . If in your family tree you have an individual who was an officers, whose military career was associated with the Army of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile description there would be a brief biography added. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button...
Town Viekšniai (Vecksna, pronunciation for English speakers: Veksh-ney) is located in the Šiauliai (Shavli) District, Kaunas (Kovno) governorship, Lithuania. This project aims to share records, useful links, and family facts (described within the "About" section in profiles) to help genealogical research for families that lived in the Viekšniai Jewish community . If you have persons in your f...
Project Notable Lithuanian Writers is created to honour notable Lithuanian writers.Please add profiles to the project, if they were:* writers* poets* biographers* playwriters* critics* journalists* translatersand other similar artists.Only public profiles or MPs may be part of this project.Please add biography or link to biography, links to work of an artist to the profile.Sources of biographie...
This Jewish shtetl project attempts to build a virtual intergenerational Jewish community of persons who were born and/or lived in the small town Vishtinets near the Eastprussian border. During the years 1795-1807, Vishtinets was under Prussian Rule and during 1807-1815 part of the „Duchy of Warsaw”. From 1815, Vishtinets and the entire region were part of Czarist Empire. During World War I the...
If in your family tree you have persons that were participants of the Battle of the Vikhra River , please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it on the sele...
The project is dedicated to collecting in one place profiles and photos of people, who were elected to Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. All these persons should have a Master Profile created for them. If in your family tree you have persons who were elected members of the Lithuanian Seimas, please add them to this project. Also please specify this project under GENI photos, where members ...
The majority of Jews in Lithuania were not required to live in ghettos nor sent to the Nazi concentration camps which by then were just in the preliminary stages of operation. Instead they were shot in pits near their places of residence with the most infamous mass murders taking place in the Ninth Fort near Kaunas and the Ponary Forest near Vilnius. Lithuania’s Jews were thus the first in Euro...
This project is intended to gather and note Lithuanian scientists. Scientist is a researcher who has an academic doctor title. The starting point may be Wikipedia list of Lithuanian scientists and Universal Lithuanian encyclopedia (in Lithuanian) .Only public profiles may be added to this project.Please add informaction about scientists to the "About" biographical section of a profile.