When you contribute to LitvakSIG....

You are supporting our continuing efforts to gather information on, and document the lives of our ancestors, and to make this information available to all by inclusion in the All Lithuania Database (ALD). The contribution options are described below.

To make a check or credit card contribution by mail, please PRINT this web page (it may print as more than one page), fill it in, and submit it to the address below. Note that this is NOT an online form. You may complete many fields by typing in your browser, and then print the form.

IF YOU FAIL TO INCLUDE THE FORM WITH YOUR CHECK, AT LEAST PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. WE WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOUR DUES, OR YOUR CONTRIBUTION, IS RECORDED EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANT IT.

To make a contribution online, please go to this link.

You can contribute to:

• Uyzed research groups
• General research donations
• Memorial donations for general research $100.00 minimum
• Dues - Dues are $36.00 annually(January 1st - December 31st)
• Vital Records Translation project(VRT)

If you do not know where your ancestors are from, please mark your contribution as "Other."  If you know the shtetl but not the name of the uyezd, please check the Shtetl / Uyezd / Guberniya table. 

RESEARCH GROUP contributors of $100 or more, for a specific district (Telsiai and Vilnius districts are $200), will receive the records as they are translated, in batches, usually in a spreadsheet format.  Non-contributors may access the records after they have been placed in the ALD, after a delay of approximately one year.

VITAL RECORDS TRANSLATION PROJECT(VRT). Write in the name of your shtetl in the table below and enter the amount you wish to contribute. If there are no records for that shtetl, your contribution will be added to the general records acquisition fund. For a list of shtetls for which records have been microfilmed, visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/FHLC/VilnaMicrofilmsIndex.htm.

Almost all of the records filmed have been sorted into files by shtetl.  When the records were received, they were CD copies of the microfilmed records, just as recorded at the archives: chronological records in journals, not by shtetl but by year.  Due to the volunteer efforts of two of our members, the records were sorted by shtetl.  The approximate counts of microfilmed pages are shown on this spreadsheet; note that for each page other than Vilnius records, we are averaging two or two and one-half actual birth, marriage, divorce, or death records per microfilmed page.  For Vilnius records, we are averaging about four actual birth, marriage, divorce, or death records per microfilmed page.

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