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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the Vilnius city, capital of Lithuania. Alternate names: Vilna, Vilne, Wilno, Вильнюс, Вильна. Vilnius, also known as Vilna, was a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, particularly before World War II. In the early 20th century, the Jewish population of Vilnius was substantial, representing a significant portion of the c...
This Umbrella Project aims to collect all GENI information (list of other projects) related to Jewish culture and localities in historical Lithuania. If you developed a Jewish Locality project that was territorially associated with historical Lithuania, please add it to the list. Please use the Project Discussion part (top right of this page) for all questions, ideas, and conversations. Lithu...
Jews of Vishtinets (English) | ווישטינעץ (Yiddish) | וישטיטיס (Hebrew) | Wisztyniec (Polish) | Wyschtiten, Wistiten (German) | today: Vištytis, Lithuania 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 Pruss...
Please add this project to the profiles of your Jewish ancestors whose lives are associated with Jonava. Also, please specify this project under Photos and Documents from Jonava. Jewish Families from Jonava (Janeve, Yaneve, Yanova, Janovo, יונאבה, יאנובה), Kaunas dist., Lithuania In the 18th century, Jonava consisted of a manor and a settlement, which was located on the right bank of the N...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Ariogala, Kaunas county, Lithuania. Alternate names: Ariogala [Lith], Eragala [Yid], Ragala [Yid], Eiragola [Rus], Ejragoła [Pol], Ėĭragola, Ayragula, Ariogalos, Arëgala, Airiogala, Iragola, Ragola, Ragole JewishGen Locality Page A history of the Jewish Community of Ariogala From the book Lithuanian Jewish Commun...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Panevėžys, Lithuania. Panevezys (Ponevezh), Lithuania, Part l , Part ll JewishGen Panevėžys, Ponevezh, Ponivezh, or Ponevich was included in Kovno guberniia. Most of the Jews of Panevėžys lived in the Slobodka quarter.Until the mid-nineteenth century, Panevėžys was a typical traditional Jewish community, most of whose mem...
Welcome!=>>This project is intended to facilitate genealogical and historical collaboration among those interested in the Sharpe family of Vilna, Lithuania and Nashua, New Hampshire (USA).How can you participate?(1) Add your branches to the Geni tree. This is a 100% shared collaboration and the tree belongs to all of us. Please do not duplicate existing entries.(2) Upload photographs and docume...
Kuršena (Kushany) in the Siauliai (Shavli) District, Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania Jewish families of the Kurshany shtetl (Kurseniaia, Kurshan, Kurshany, Kurshjan). Who were they? Where did they go? Families Adelshteyn Adelzon Bloch Browde (Broude) Fridman Gelman (Helman) Glezer Glick Gold Greenspon (Greenspoon) Gurvich (Hurwich) Kan Kagan Kats Katsev Kleyn Ko...
Jewish Families from Viekšniai, Šiauliai dist., Lithuania 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 ...
Jewish Families from Jurbarkas, Lithuania This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Jurbarkas, Kaunas County, Lithuania. Alternate names: Ariogala [Lith], Yurburg [Yid], יורבורג [Heb], Юрбаркас or Юрбург [Rus], Jurbork [Pol], Georgenburg, Jurgenburg, and Eurburg. If you have persons in your family tree who were residents of the Jurbarkas Jewish Community, Lit...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Zagare, Siauliai, Kovno, Lithuania.Alternative names: Žagarė [Lith], Zhager [Yid], Zhagare [Rus], Schagarren [Ger], Žagare [Latv], Żagory [Pol], Zhagar, Zager, Žagarės JewishGen Locality Page
The project is created to restore the connections between the Keidaners. By Andrey Vinokurov: As for my family story - Exploring my own genealogy, I discovered that fact, that my great-grandmother Sheyne Nese Shores was born in1880 in a family of Elyash Beker - a carpenter-cabinetry from Kedainiai. She was married there to Aizik Shores and moved to Vilijampole (Kovno), where my Grandmother ...
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...
Jewish Families of Ukmerge District, Lithuania autosomal DNA Group. The mission of this group is to try and unite those individuals who have conducted an autosomal DNA test through companies such as Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, or Ancestry.com to other Jewish individuals and families who came from Ukmerge District Lithuania. Shtetls in Ukmerge Uyezd : Anyksciai, Balninkai, Debekiai, Kavarskas, Ku...
The purpose of this project is to document the Jewish families living in various towns in the Troki district, Vilnius Province, Lithuania (then Russian Empire) in the 19th century. I was interested in towns that the large Frankel family of Ratnycia / Druskininkai (an agricultural satellite of Merkine) married people from or moved to. See the Geni project on the Frankel family (link to the right...
Jewish Families from Miroslavas (Miroslaw), Alytus region (former Suwalki Gubernia, Sejny district), Lithuania This is a shell for Jewish Families of Miroslaw in Suwalki Gubernia. Please feel free to join and develop this project. Photos of Miroslavas Miroslasvas - a remote town located about 12 km southwest of Alytus. Once, there may have been a road from Alytus to Poland, but during ...
This is a shell for Jewish families from the town of Berzniki in the Suwalki Gubernia. Please feel free to join and develop this project.
The purpose of this project is to identify and collect Jewish individuals from a small town in the North East Poland area called Raczk Raczki, In Suwalki. Raczki rat͡ʂki (Lithuanian: Račkos) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Raczki. It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-w...
Druskieniki and Ratnycia, Lithuania: Remembering our Ancestors '"...On the 22nd of June, 1941, the Nazis attacked Lithuania but the news didn't reach Radnitsa until the next day when the refugees from Liskovo and Lipen arrived. There was nowhere to run, however, as the Nazis had already taken Vilna and the Kaunas fortress. Everyone stayed in their own homes. The Nazis, may their names be bl...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Joniškėlis in Lithuania. Alternate names: Joniškėlis [Lith], Yonishkel [Yid], Ioganishkeli [Rus], Johaniszkiele [Pol], Jonišķēle [Latv], Yonishkelis, Joniškiai, Joniškelio, Juonėškielis, Ionishkelis, Ioganishkely, Yohonishkel, Yaneskel, Yonushkel, Yoganishkeli Region: Kovno Before WWI (c. 1900): Ioganishkeli Ponevez...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Birzai, Lithuania. Jewish Birzai Jewish Virtual Library BIRZAI (Lith. Birži; Yid. בירזי), district capital in northern Lithuania, near the Latvian border. Jews started to settle there in the beginning of the 17th century. Birzai was one of the three leading communities of the "medinah [province] of Zamut" (Zhmud) in the m...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the city of Hrodna (Grodno) in Belarus.GRODNO (Horodno), city in Belarus, formerly Poland-Lithuania. One of the oldest Jewish communities in the former grand duchy of *Lithuania (see *Poland-Lithuania), the Grodno community received a charter from Grand Duke Wi-told in 1389. This indicates the existence of a synagogue and cemetery an...