This database contains over 9,000 deaths from select Lithuanian towns from 1845-1940. Information listed in the records includes: name of deceased, parents\' names, spouse\'s name, cause of death, death date, place of residence, and source information.

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This database contains over 9,000 deaths from the following Lithuanian towns:

Town	Year(s)	FHL Microfilm Number	Number of Records
Kupiškis Kupishok	1871-1875	2288941/6	96
	1876-81, 1883-84	2288942/1	308
	1886	2270647/3	66
	1887, 1889-90, 1892, 1894, 1897-98	2288942/2	338
	1891, 1895, 1899-1900, 1906-14	2331378/3,7,11	483
	1920-40	Not microfilmed	257
Linkuva Linkeve	1914, 1923-26	Not microfilmed	69
Moletai Maliat	1853-57, 1859-72	2157999/1; others	456
Moletai Maliat	1898, 1900-02, 1904-15	2205091/3	596
Panevežys Ponevezh	1872-74	2205129/2-3	234
	1876-79	2270245/5	436
	1925-40	Not microfilmed	1,588
Pumpenai Pompian	1854-56, 1859-61	2157999/1; others	82
	1865-80	2205128/3-4; 2270245/2	516
	1902-03, 1905-07	2199343/1 & 3; 2199344/1	125
Pušalotas Pushelot	1883-1912	2238521/2	245
Pušalotas Pushelot	1924-39	Not microfilmed	27
Raseiniai Rasayn	1845	2157888/2	224
Rokiškis Rakishok	1874-96, 1922-39	Not microfilmed	1,680
Šilale Shilel	1922-39	Not microfilmed	269
Širvintos Shirvint	1854-72	Various	147
Vilkija Vilki	1881-92	2291673/2	295
Žeimelis Zhemel	1859-60, 1862	2192859/3	32
	1864	2187654/4	17
	1865-71, 1873-75	2205127/2-3	202
	1876-80	2270470/1	99
	1882-98	Not microfilmed	265
	1913-14, 1925-26	Not microfilmed	33

About the Records:

According to the Regulations of 1835 in the Russian Empire, one of the duties of an official state rabbi (a "crown rabbi") was to carry out, solely by his offices, all the rites of circumcision and naming of infants, weddings, dissolution of marriages, and burials "(in populous cities a rabbi could have assistants to carry out those rites)"; to keep metrical books in all its sections and to submit copies of them annually to gubernia authorities, in Hebrew and Russian language.

The records during the Czarist period (i.e. those before 1918) were written in both Russian (Cyrillic alphabet) and Hebrew script, although some records are in Russian language only. The records during the period of Lithuanian independence (i.e. those created between 1919 and 1940) were written in the Lithuanian language, with some Hebrew and Yiddish.

Information listed in this database typically includes:

Name of the deceased: Surname and Given Name(s). Where there are two names separated by a slash ("/"), one is transliterated from the Russian, one from the Hebrew (in the pre-WWI Czarist records); or the second name in square brackets is the Lithuanian nominative form (in the post-WWI records).

Father\'s Name

Mother\'s Name

Spouse: Given Name(s) and surname of surviving spouse, if listed

Date of Death: Day, month and year of death, in dd/mm/ccyy format. (See Notes on Dates below)

Hebrew Date: Day and month of death, according to the Jewish calendar

Cause of Death

Age of the deceased

Place of death: Town, Uyezd (district) and Gubernia (province)

Place of residence: The town where the deceased resided

Comments

Place Recorded: the town where the death was recorded

Year: the year that the death was registered

Record: the registration number of death (number is proceeded by "F" for female or "M" for male)

Microfilm / Item: the FHL microfilm number and microfilm item number, if a microfilmed record; or "Not Microfilmed" if not

Image #: The Image number on microfilm, if available (this will enable you to locate the record on the microfilm)

Archive / Fond: The Archive and Fond citation — the source of the death record. "LVIA" = Lietuvos Valstybės Istorijos Archyvas (Lithuanian State Historical Archives), in Vilnius; "KRA" = Kaunas Regional Archives

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JewishGen volunteers, comp. Lithuania: Death Records from Various Towns, 1845-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Crown rabbinate metrical records. Vilnius, Lithuania: Lithuanian State Historical Archives. Some of these records are also available on Family History Library microfilm rolls (listed below), Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. This data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org.

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