Lithuania Online Genealogy Records

Guide to Lithuania Online Genealogy Records for researching ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth, marriage, death, census, church, military, immigration, and naturalization records.

Lithuania Online Genealogy Records
This chart shows links to countrywide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county, town, or parish), go to Locating Online Databases.
Ancestry.com, findmypast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Church Records and Vital Records

Births, Baptisms, or Christenings; Marriages; Deaths or Burials

ePaveldas Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Collection, digital repository and collection of items of Lithuanian heritage and culture, includes almost 4,000 Roman Catholic Church register books. Images, no index. Incomplete.
GenMetrika, Catholic Church register books.
Litwa-metryki cz. Lithuania vital records with online images. Click the link by "Cz. I i II" or "Cz. III" to access images by location. Map pins indicate villages from which records are available. Includes some records from Belarus.
Pasvalia See "Metrikų knyga" (Metrical books). Includes Roman Catholic Church records for various years and places.
Polish “Archival resources online”. Instructions. Includes records for Polish regions now in Lithuania.
Lithuania: Birth Records from Various Towns, 1822-1940 (not all years). Index. Incomplete. ($)
Lithuania: Death Records from Various Towns, 1845-1940 (not all years). Index. Incomplete. ($)
Lithuania: Marriage and Divorce Records from Various Towns, 1855-1940 (not all years). Index. Incomplete.($)
LitvakSIG Search, primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish ("Litvak") genealogy research worldwide. Index. Incomplete.

British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, index and images, ($)

s/marriages-and-divorces/british-nationals-married-overseas-1818-2005 British Nationals Married Overseas 1818-2005], index and images,

British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages,, index and images, ($)

s/deaths-and-burials/british-nationals-died-overseas-1818-2005 British Nationals Died Overseas 1818-2005], index and images.

British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Large Databases With Many Record Types

Paveldas Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Collection, digital repository and collection of items of Lithuanian heritage and culture, includes almost 4,000 Roman Catholic Church register books, judicial records, estate records. Images, no index. Incomplete.

Census

Lithuania 1897 Census Database, Extracts of the Jewish records in the 1897 Russian Census. Translated by the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. Index. Incomplete.
Lithuania, LitvakSIG Census & Family Lists from Various Districts, 1795-1900, ($). Index. Incompete.

Citizenship

Lithuania, Internal Passports, 1919-1940. Index. Incomplete.

Directories

Lithuania, Directories from Several Towns and Shtetls, 1816-1944. Index. Incomplete.

Emigration, Immigration, and Passenger Lists

Russians Immigrating to the United States, 1834-1897, ($). Records of 527,394 passengers who arrived at the United States between 1834 through 1897 and identified their country of origin or nationality as Armenia, Finland, Galicia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Russian Poles, or Ukraine. Index. Incomplete.

Jewish Records

LitvakSIG Search, primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish ("Litvak") genealogy research worldwide. Index. Incomplete.
JewishGen Lithuania Database, multiple-database search, containing more than 1.6 million entries from Lithuania. Index. Incomplete.
Lithuania 1897 Census Database, Extracts of the Jewish records in the 1897 Russian Census. Translated by the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. Index. Incomplete.
Lithuania, Jews Saved by Passports From the Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara, 1940, index.

Periodicals

PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($)

Political Victims

Indeks Represjonowanych– Searchable database of people who were persecuted, killed or repatriated during Soviet rule of Poland.

Tax Records

Lithuania, Tax and Voters Lists, 1839-1949 (various years), ($). Index.

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