While we endeavor to keep the majority of our data acquisition/translation projects within the District/Gubernia Research Groups, sometimes that is not practical from a coordination or funding standpoint.

For example, where a particular list is very large it may be treated as a project by itself, distinct from the District/Gubernia Research Groups.  Funds were raised for the City of Kaunas family list 1858-1915. This had its own $100 US required contribution and this list alone was expected to cost in the range of $10,000. The translations were completed in September, 2010 and the data is now accessible through the Kaunas District Research Group.

Another example of this are the Internal Passport (IP) Files.This is a translation project to a collection of files rich with family information for those people who resided in independent Lithuania in the interwar period (1919-1940). The vast majority of these projects are organized by shtetl and are funded separately by shtetl. In some cases, the District/Gubernia Research Groups are funding the acquisition of this data.

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