This status page is currently managed as a short list. When the project grows and the volume of information is much greater,
this page will be turned into a downloadable spreadsheet.
Towns Completed
Kudirkos Naumiestis - filmed records COMPLETED
Nemunaitis - filmed records COMPLETED
Balbieriskis - filmed records COMPLETED 10/2008
Nemencine - distribution completed 12/23/2007; VRT translation COMPLETED
Moletai - distribution completed 12/4/2005; VRT translations COMPLETED
other Moletai records listed under Vilna County to be translated
Rasein - distribution completed 3/11/2006; VRT translations COMPLETED
Shirvint - distribution completed 3/11/2006; VRT translations COMPLETED
other Shirvint records listed under Vilna County to be translated
Stakliskis - distribution completed 5/19/2007; VRT translations COMPLETED
Keidan - all birth records distributed 3/10/2006; VRT births COMPLETED
Kernave -distribution completed 2/23/2006; VRT translations COMPLETED
Pumpenai - distribution completed 5/2006; VRT translations COMPLETED
Vilna - Translations received:
Translations / indexing by volunteers:
1. Indexes to 1854 - 1859 births;
2. Indexes to 1878 - 1883; 1886 - 1900 deaths
3. Indexes to 1883 - 1900 births
4. Indexes to 1837, 1838 births
5. Marriages 1847 -1860; 1866 - 1886
by paid translator:
1. 1861 - 1865 B,D,M,V
2. Births 1854 - 1860; 1866 - 1873
Total just over 76,000 records
Translations in Process 10/17/2008
Podberezhe - Hebrew translations completed by volunteer 11/2008
Keidan - raising funds; birth records completed; marriage completed;
Kovno - raising funds & seeking to match challenge grant; First translations received 1880, 1881,
1884 births; Kovno transferred to Aaron Roetenberg
Kudirkos Namiestis - filmed records COMPLETED; Howard Margol getting unfilmed records translated
Mikhalishok - COMPLETED 2008
Vilijampole - raising funds & seeking to match challenge grant; translations begun 7/1/2006; First
translations received Fall 2006; Vilijampole transferred to Aaron Roetenberg
Vilkija - raising funds and seeking to match challenge grant; translations received - births 1880
- 1900, deaths 1881 - 1892; Additional death records 1892 - 1900 sent to a translator 2/11/07; Vilkija transferred to Aaron
Roetenberg
Vilna - fundraising for additional B,D,M,V records; Vilna birth records 1839 - 1853 and death records
1837 - 1846 funded for translation; Records sent to translator 10/2008
Vilna County - fundraising; Births completed 2nd, 3rd, 4th okrugs
Other Towns
All other towns* for the VRT project which have not been listed above are still in a fundraising mode prior to translation
of records. The first records go to translation when $500 has been raised for a given town.
* Contact Aaron Roetenberg for up to date status for Kovno gubernia towns
