Metadata: Board of Veliuona Burghers of Kaunas County in the Governorate of Kaunas
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Kaunas Regional State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- 44248, Maironio g. 28B, Kaunas 44249
- Phone number:
- +370 (837) 323 111
- Web address:
- https://www.archyvai.lt/lt/kaa_naujienos.html
- Email:
- kaunas@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- F. I-197
- Title:
- Board of Veliuona Burghers of Kaunas County in the Governorate of Kaunas
- Title (official language):
- Kauno gubernijos Kauno apskrities Veliuonos miestiečių valdyba (Велионская мещанская управа Ковенского уезда Ковенской губернии)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Board of Veliuona burghers of Kaunas county in the governorate of Kaunas
- Date(s):
- 1869/1887
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 2 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains lists accumulated by the board of Veliuona town burghers. It includes a list of members of the Jewish community in Veliuona containing the names of the heads of Jewish families: it specifies which Jewish inhabitants of the town are living, which Jewish community members are wealthy and which members of the Jewish community own some real estate (1869). It also contains poll tax documentation of extended Jewish families in the town and a census from 1887.
- Archival history:
- The date of the reception of the documents and their source is undetermined. The fonds has not been supplemented since 19 April 1956. The fonds belonged to the Kaunas branch of the former Lithuanian SSR State Archives. In 1990 the name of the archive was changed to Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Kovno Governorate was a governorate in the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed in 1842 by Tsar NIcholas.
The town of Veliuona is also called Velon in Yiddish. Before World War I approximately 100 Jewish families resided in the town. The town had a yeshiva founded at the end of the 19th century by Rabbi Yacob Yoseph.
- Access points: locations:
- Veliuona
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Real estate
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged on a chronological basis.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Kaunas Regional State Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Monika Žulytė
