Lithuania Census

Lithuania

Family Lists / Local Censuses
Research use: Excellent source for identifying family groups.

Record type: Population enumeration for the purpose of assessing a poll tax and identifying those for conscription into the military. The family lists continued the gathering of data that was previously collected in the revision lists.

General: In some areas, the term supplemental revision lists was used when referring to family lists. Since there was no universal mandate to create these records, as there was with the revision lists, family lists occur randomly at different times for different places. Family lists were also created by conscription offices that listed all male members of a family along with their parents.

Time period: 1860-1920.

Contents: Head of household, family members, ages; other details vary.

Location: State Historical Archive in Vilnius and the Kaunas State Archive.

Population coverage: 30% coverage because conducted randomly on a local basis and not always preserved.

Reliability: They are not completely reliable because of efforts to evade taxation or conscription by avoiding correct enumeration.