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Archives and Libraries

• Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from Lithuania as well as information on archival institutions throughout the European continent.

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the Family History Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

Lithuanian State History Archive
Mindaugo g. 8, Vilnius, LT-03134
Lithuania

Telephone: + 370 5 2137482
E-mail address: istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
Website
Genealogical Search

These are the main genealogical sources of the 18th – 20th cc. preserved in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives:

• Birth, marriage, divorce and death church records books of various confessions,
• Birth, marriage, divorce, death civil registries, etc.
• Pre-marital questioning books,
• Lists of parishioners,
• Acts verifying the nobility,
• Lists of noble families,
• Estate inventory lists,
• Lists of auditing.

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Lithuanian Central State Archives
O. Milašiaus 21
LT 10102 Vilnius, Lithuania

Telephone: +370 5 247 7811
Fax: +370 5 276 5318
E-mail: lcva@archyvai.lt
Website
Genealogical Search

These are the main genealogical sources of the 20th c. preserved in the Lithuanian Central State Archives:

• Domestic and foreign passports of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania,
• Documents of volunteers, conscripts, soldiers and officers of the Army of the Republic of Lithuania,
• Documents referring to the land reform,
• Personal files of teachers, pupils and students,
• Documents of persons abducted as forced labourers to Germany,
• The population census data from 1942 and 1959, and others.

Libraries

Martynas Mažvydas,

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National Library of Lithuania

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Klaipėda University Klaipėda, Lithuania

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Vilnius University Library

Museums

Google Listings: Museums/Lithuania

Record Offices

Lithuanian Central State Archives
Mailing address:
O. Milašiaus 21, LT-10102
Vilnius, Lithuania

Telephone: +370 5 247 7830

+370 5 247 7811

Fax: +370 5 276 5318
E-mail: lcva@archyvai.lt
Reserved e-mail: valstybes.archyvas@gmail.com
Website

The Soviet government implemented civil registration in Lithuania in 1940. Metrical book transcripts had served this purpose previously. Registration offices are next to “marriage palaces” permitting the registration and performance of weddings to occur at the same place and time.

"Lithuanian State Historical Archives is the main repository of records for the Lithuanian history from the 13th century up to the declaration of the Independence of Lithuania in 1918 (civil registry and vital records up until to our days).