ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES : PRACTICAL ASPECTS

Virginija Čijunskiene Head of Documents Preservation and Information Division  of  Lithuanian State Historical Archives

THE HOLDINGS OF LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES

• 1339181 records

• over 10500000 frames

• over 670000 pages of digital copies

• 16450 linear meters

• 1- fonds of the institutions of Grand Duchy of Lithuania

(15 – 18 c.)

• 2 - fonds of the institutions and organizations of Russian Empire (1792-1915)

• 3 – fonds of institutions of Kaiser Germany (1915- 1918)

• 4 - fonds of Roman catholic, Orthodox, Evangelic Reformats, Evangelic Lutherans, Jewish , Uniates, Muslims and Karaites institutions and communities( 15 -20 c.)

• 5 - fonds of persons and families (15 – 20 c.)

• 6 - collections of documents (15 – 20c.)

• 7 – collections of microfilms

(13 – 20c.)

• 8 - fonds of civil registration offices

( 1940 –2006)

MAIN WAYS TO OBTAIN THE INFORMATION

1 - the requests to the archives to find information

2 - educational excursions and exhibitions of documents

3 - digital copies of documents online

4 - access to documents in reading room

REQUESTS RECEIVED IN LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES :

• 2006 year - 17853 requests

• 2007 year - 18822 requests

• www.epaveldas.lt

TODAY AVALABLE ON LINE

• 183213 pages

• 705 registers

• 22 fonds of Roman catholic churches

THE STATISTIC OF READING ROOMS

• 2006 year - 933 readers• 12476 visits.

• 2007 year - 1135 readers

• 13866 visits.

THE MAIN GROUPS OF CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA FILES IN LITHUANIAN

STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES

• personal files

• church and civil vital registers

• various lists

ACCESS IS RESTRICTED FOR BAD PHYSICAL CONDITION

• 2136 files

• 1842 of them are registers

• 550 of registers are microfilmed

• 21 of registers are ditized

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION