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Please specify this project in the profiles of your oldest known ancestors, whose life is associated with Jonava. Also, please specify this project under Photos (portraits, historical property) and Documents from Jonava. Jonava is the ninth-largest city in Lithuania, with a population of around 30,000. It is located in Kaunas County, central Lithuania, 30 km (19 miles) northeast of Kaunas, th...
Project Masters of Visual Arts of Lithuania is created to honor notable Lithuanian representatives of visual arts, other than those that require stage. Please add profiles to the project if they were: artistic designers blacksmiths and metal art workers ceramic artists decorators goldsmiths and jewelers graphic artists installation artists painters photographers poster ma...
This project aims to identify notable Russians, whose family roots, life, education, achievements are associated with Lithuania.If in your family tree you have an individual that was a Lithuanian Russian 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 opened profile page use the 'Action...
Lithuanian Christian Clergy==Please check for dates and facts of Lithuanian Christian Clergy within this database: . Please add this data to GENI profiles. Please add profiles of Lithuanian Christian Clergy or equivalent to this project. Roman Catholicism, Greek Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Old Believers Orthodoxy, Protestantism, including Evangelical Lutheranism, Calvinism, Evangelical Refo...
This project aims to identify notable Jews, whose family roots, education, professional achievements are associated with Lithuania . If in your family tree you have an individual that was a Lithuanian Jew 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 opened profile page use the 'Actio...
If in your family tree you have Lithuanians who participated in WWII resistance, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description there would be a brief biography added. This should include not only local Lithuania's resistance participants, but also people of various nationalities and citizens of other countries, who's families are descending from Lithuania....
Monasticism==Please add profiles of Lithuanian Cenobites or equivalent, of any religion, to this project. Roman Catholicism, Greek Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Old Believers Orthodoxy, Protestantism, including Evangelical Lutheranism, Calvinism, Evangelical Reformed, Islamism, Buddhism, Judaism, Karaite Judaism and any other religion practiced in Lithuania will fit this project.Please add pr...
— Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — A. Old dynasties (holding princes' status before 1569, approved by the Union of Lublin) A.1. Existing to this day, which after the partitions were recognized in the partitioning states (Austria or Prussia) as families equal to the ruling ones (the title Durchlaucht , i.e. Brightly Enlightened , traditionally reserved for ruling dynasties, and the title Fürst f...
Please add profiles of people who participated in the Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival. The Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival (Lithuanian: Lietuvių dainų ir šokių šventė), colloquially known also as the Song Celebration (Lithuanian: Dainų šventė) is a Lithuanian massive traditional song and dance festival. It takes place roughly every four years. The event has been a national celebration t...
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, ...
If you have in your family tree profiles of people who were students or teachers at Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary, please add them to this project. Note: Only public profiles may be added to projects. Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary was a seminary in Veiveriai, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland (now Lithuania). It was established as teachers' courses in 1866 and reorganized into a seminary in ...
This project is dedicated to tracing ancestors in Lithuania, its present territories, and the historical lands of Lithuania Propria. Also, this portal provides a list of online genealogy sources, such as registries and archives of Lithuanian documents. If you have Lithuanian ancestors or study ancestral lines deriving from Lithuania Propria, please follow and participate in this project. Ple...
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...
Lithuanian Stage Notables This project aims to list profiles of notable performers in Lithuania. Every person who performed on the stage in Lithuania or was known as a performer from Lithuania in other countries will fit this project. This will include theater, ballet, concert stage, folk stage, field performers, market and street festival performers, music, dance, poetry, storytelling, acrobat...
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. ...
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...
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. Lithuanian Armed Forces 1918–1940 In 1940 Lithuanian armed forces had 17 general officers, 1800 officers , 30 078 non-commissioned officers and soldiers Ranks of officers were Lieutenant Se...
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...
LITHUANIAN Coffee Corner is a place where people who do not understand the Lithuanian language can meet and greet and work with others searching for ancestors from Lithuania. Please read the rules of conduct and collaboration on GENI Please join this project and share a link to your Family project. If there's an important topic still not addressed by GENI Lithuania, start a new discussion o...
The Pomorian soglasiye (Согласие, which means "creed" or "confession") is a group of bespopovtsy ("priestless") Old Believers, who abandoned the practice of receiving "runaway priests" after the death of the last pre-Raskol (schism) priests of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the absence of the priesthood, they began to elect literate laity to conduct services. The Pomorian creed was formed in ...
This project is intended to collect information about prominent Lithuanian medics, physicians, and nurses in one place. It is also appropriate to connect this project to the profiles of those whose life activities were significant in Lithuanian medicine. Please add this project to group photos depicting Lithuanian medical personnel. From the end of the 15th century, craft guilds began to be ...
This project is for licensed physicians of Lithuanian heritage who have practiced medicine in the United States. 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 ⚕️ In the medical field, several acronyms are used to represent professional titles and roles. Common examples include MD (Medical Doctor), PA (Physician Assistant), and NP (Nurse Practitioner). Other relevant acronyms include DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), DPM (Doctor ...
1. Candidates: Geni profiles are created from documents posted on Linking Our Lithuanian Ancestors-Detroit Facebook group, and those discovered while creating profiles. Candidates are Lithuanians: -that naturalized before moving to Detroit -that naturalized while living in Detroit -born in Scotland, Germany, Russia, France or Canada to Lithuanian-born parents. 2. Permissions: Draugas n...
The Ghettos in Šiauliai (Shavli); The Lithuanians succeded in killing over 2000 Šiauliai Jews before the incarceration of the remaining Jews in the two Ghettos, one in the Kafkaz area and the other in the Traku neighborhood, about 500 meters away. The Ghetto gates closed behind about 5500 Jews that were crammed in an area of about 8000 square meters of living space; 1.5 m per person. The guards...
If in your family tree you have a persons that ware the Lithuanian deportees by the Soviet system, please add them to this project. Please add within a profile description some biography facts.* 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 selection list). You may add any p...