Archives and registers we have worked with

Below is the full list of collections we have searched for ancestors: church registers, census lists, nobility records, microfilmed registers and old papers. Each entry has its archive reference, so anyone can find it on their own.

Archive units and microfilms: 477. Pages of scans: 146,707. Documents read and described with their archive reference: 326. Parishes: 31.

• Church registers of the Święciany deanery (LVIA, fond 604, inventory 37)Yearly transcripts of the baptism, marriage and death registers of every parish in the Święciany deanery, made for the consistory in Vilnius. Each year is one volume with more than a dozen parishes, among them Święciany (Švenčionys), Hoduciszki (Adutiškis), Daugieliszki (Daugėliškis), Widziszki (Vidiškiai), Mielegiany (Mielagėnai), Strunojcie (Strūnaitis), Połusze (Palūšė), Korkożyszki, Sorokpol (Pavoverė), Linkmiany (Linkmenys), Kołtyniany (Kaltanėnai), Łabonary (Labanoras) and Kubiliszki.Entries: 160. Pages of scans: 55,387.
• Parish and deanery registers (LVIA)Baptism, marriage and death registers kept in the parishes themselves, pre-marriage examinations, parish censuses and transcripts of the Oszmiana, Dzisna, Świr and Wilejka deanery registers.Entries: 90. Pages of scans: 10,704.
• Census lists from 1795 to 1854 (LVIA, fond 515, inventory 15)Revision lists of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Vilnius province: house by house, with first names, ages and often the father's name. The 1795 lists are arranged by parish, the later ones by estate or by social group (nobility, peasants, freeholders, townspeople).Entries: 89. Pages of scans: 43,458.
• Nobility records of Vilnius province (LVIA, fonds 391, 381 and 708)Proofs and decisions of the Vilnius Assembly of Noble Deputies, family genealogies, documents of descent and lists of the nobility. They show who was confirmed as noble after the partitions and on what evidence.Entries: 46. Pages of scans: 10,530.
• Microfilmed registersMicrofilms of church registers from the Vilnius region and Belarus, from Kashubia and from the Dobrzyń land and northern Masovia. The page count is the number of frames we went through.Entries: 86. Pages of scans: 23,284.
• Other collectionsA tax register of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, an estate inventory, early parish registers and the papers of emigrants leaving for America.Entries: 6. Pages of scans: 3,344.
• Documents we have read and describedWe have read each of these documents on the scan and described it in a family chronicle, with an image, the original text and a translation. This is the list with archive references. We list only documents from before 1916.Documents: 326.

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