Jewish Ancestors: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Lithuania - Sam Aaron

Jewish Ancestors: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Lithuania - Sam AaronFor beginners, the Guide explains how to identify your ancestral shtetl (the small town in which Jews were obliged to live) and how to start off your research. CONTENTS Author's Note Acknowledgments Some Basic History Administrative Divisions How to go about your research Types of records in the Lithuanian Archives What records are available for your shtetl Accessing Lithuanian data through your computer Names appearing in the old records Obtaining

For beginners, the Guide explains how to identify your ancestral shtetl (the small town in which Jews were obliged to live) and how to start off your research.

CONTENTS

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

1. Some Basic History
2. Administrative Divisions
3. How to go about your research
4. Types of records in the Lithuanian Archives
5. What records are available for your shtetl
6. Accessing Lithuanian data through your computer
7. Names appearing in the old records
8. Obtaining information from the archives in Lithuania
9. Looking for leads in non-Lithuanian sources
10. Holocaust Research
11. A Case Study
12. Keeping up-to-date

Shtetl Locator and Map

Appendix A: Old place-names and current Lithuanian equivalents

Appendix B: Further reading

Index

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain 2005, paperback