ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES : PRACTICAL ASPECTS

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

THE HOLDINGS OF LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES

1339181 recordsover 10500000 framesover 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 readers12476 visits.

2007 year - 1135 readers13866 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 CONDITION2136 files1842 of them are registers550 of registers are microfilmed21 of registers are ditized

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION