Includes the names of more than 9,000
Lithuanian Jews - extracted from Lithuanian newspapers (lists mostly
from the Province of Kovno, State of Douma) from the years 1850
to 1910. Database compiled and maintained by
Aleksandrs Feigmanis aleksgen@balticgen.com
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The database
shows Abram Gurvitz - 48 meaning there
are 48 articles containing his name. Here is information
extracted from those articles: Abram son
ofJossel
Gurvitz was owner of the house in Kaunas in 4th quarter of
the town on Moskovskaya street. He is mentioned in the list
of electors in the State Douma (Russian Parliament) in 1907,
published in the supplement to newspaper "Kovenskiye
gubernskije vedomosti" # 50, 1907.
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translation of the article I send you a copy of the original
entry)
Another example:
Meilachovitch Berka- 35 - In
1859 on the page 198 of the newspaper "Kovenskije
gubernskije vedomosti" was published the announcement that
Kovno district court call the heirs of
a Jew Berka son of Leib Meilachovitch for to introduce
them in possesion of
his inheritance.
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addition to the translation of the article I send you a
copy of the original entry.
Another example:
Kor Zelman-12 - The draft commission
of Telz district search the conscript Zelman
son of Schmerel Kor, petit-bourgeois of Popelyani (Papile)
in Sauliai district, born in 1857, this information
published in the newspaper "Kovenskije gubernskije vedomosti",
# 9, year 1878. )
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article I send you a copy of the original entry.
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