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 records over frames over pages of digital copies 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 ( )

3 – fonds of institutions of Kaiser Germany ( ) 4 - fonds of Roman catholic, Orthodox, Evangelic Reformats, Evangelic Lutherans, Jewish, Uniates, Muslims and Karaites institutions and communities ( 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 requests 2007 year requests

TODAY AVALABLE ON LINE pages 705 registers 22 fonds of Roman catholic churches

THE STATISTIC OF READING ROOMS 2006 year readers visits year readers 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

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