Board of Jonava Burghers of Kaunas County in the Governorate of Kaunas

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Kauno regioninis valstybės archyvas

Title:: Board of Jonava Burghers of Kaunas County in the Governorate of Kaunas

Title (official language):: Kauno gubernijos Kauno apskrities Jonavos miestiečių valdyba (Яновская мещанская управа Ковенского уезда Ковенской губернии)

Creator/accumulator:: Board of Jonava burghers of Kaunas county in the governorate of Kaunas

Scope and content:: The fonds contains 4 files with lists of extended families in the town of Jonava. One of the lists comprises a number of registered extended Christian families (1908); two of the registry lists contain extended Jewish families (1908). The last of the lists is unspecified (1887).

Archival history:: The date of the reception of the documents and the source is undetermined. The fonds contained more files, however all of its files (except for the 4 mentioned) were transferred to the Lithuanian State Historical Archives on 31 July 1996. Since then the fonds has not been supplemented. 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 of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed in 1842 by Tsar NIcholas.

In the 19th century and up until World War II, Jews constituted the majority of Jonava’s inhabitants.

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