1. The LitvakSIG and the Jewish Genealogy Society of Los Angeles jointly sponsored Vitalija Gircyte's visit to the 18^th Annual Jewish Genealogy Seminar. Her presentation and her week of consultations with our members were the highlights of the first year of activities of the LitvakSIG. Ms. Gircyte worked very hard to produce a Catalog of the Jewish Holdings of the Kaunas Archives, which is being jointly published, on our Website on the Internet, by the Kaunas Regional Archives and the LitvakSIG.

2. Editor's note: Catalog to the Jewish Holdings of the Kaunas Archives, Copyright LitvakSIG and Kaunas Regional Archives 1998

3. Editor's note: The Box tax collector was called a "tax merchant" or "tax farmer" and was committed to actually raising the amount he had bid for the tax collecting right. These taxes were used to pay for communal services and the salary of the Rabbi. At some point the government began to take a share of this tax.