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http://defendinghistory.com/invitation-to-july-4th-event-in-alytus-to-unveil-sculpture-honoring-holocaust-rescuers/88836
 VILNIUS—The organizers of a July 4th event to unveil a new monument to the inspirationally brave Holocaust rescuers who risked all to just do the right thing and save a neighbor have issued a public invitation inviting people from near and far to attend. The monument, conceived by Vaclovas Jankauskas will be unveiled at the Sculpture Garden in Alytus (Yiddish Alíte), a town just under an hour and a half drive from Vilnius (Google map), about 110 kilometers southwest of the capital via the A4. There are regular buses. The event will be held at 11 AM on 4 July. The invitation is reproduced below and is available as PDF.


http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/LithCensus1897.htm
 In 1895, the Imperial Russian government began planning a census of the entire Russian Empire.   The actual count of individuals took place on January 28, 1897.  Previously, tax registrations and draft registrations had been collected, but this census was different — it was to be used only for statistical purposes.
“The 1897 census had an ambitious intent: to document the entire population of the Empire and describe its associated characteristics on a single day.  This [odnodnevnaya perepsis] would collect data on age, gender, literacy, nationality, place of birth, etc., for all residents irrespective of their social Estate or tax status. . . . Varying census forms were printed for what were considered the five principle groups of persons. Form [A] was for peasant households that resided on agricultural property; Form [B] was for landed Estates; Form [V] for urban populations; [another form] for the military population; and [the final form] for boarding students, clergy, wards of charitable organizations, etc.” (Thomas K. Edlund, “The 1st National Census of the Russian Empire,” FEEFHS Journal, volume VII, numbers 3-4, Fall/Winter 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah).
To see an example of these forms, click on the image at the right.
All individuals were listed together, but nationality (including "Jewish") was identified.
After the census was taken, a second copy of every return was made. Both copies were sent to the provincial census commission.  The provincial census commission sent one of copy to the central commission in St. Petersburg.  After the central commission tabulated statistical results, their copy of the information was destroyed.   However, some of the original returns were saved in local and provincial archives.
About this database
This database is a translation of the remaining fragments of the 1897 Census records, extracting only Jewish persons, from Kovno and Vilna gubernias.    Please note that there are many qualifications in this statement:

1. Only records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA) in Vilnius, Lithuania were examined.
   (The JewishGen Latvia SIG has translated some of the 1897 Census records for Latvia, at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia/AllRussia.htm;
   The JewishGen Belarus SIG has translated some of the 1897 Census records for Grodno gubernia, at http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/intro_1897_russian_census.htm).
2. Only Jewish records were translated (the records include data on "religion").
3. The majority of the original records were destroyed, and are not available today.  The following table shows the number of individuals (total population and Jewish population) recorded in the original statistical summary of the Lithuanian districts, and the number of records in the translated remnants.  As you can see, most records have been lost.  All records found in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius as of November 2002 have been translated for this database.

Uezd / District	Gubernia	Total Population *	Total # of Jews *	Jews as a % of Population	# of Jews in Remaining Records	# of Jewish Families in Remaining Records	% of Jewish Records Remaining
Kovna (Kaunas)	Kovno	227,431	45,353	20%	0	0	0
Vilkomir (Ukmergė)	Kovno	229,118	30,153	13%	4,291	834	14%
Novo-Alexandrovsk (Zarasai)	Kovno	208,487	26,463	13%	3,646	637	14%
Ponevezh (Panevėžys)	Kovno	222,881	27,207	12%	1,397	251	5%
Rossieny (Raseiniai)	Kovno	235,362	26,447	11%	1,083	194	4%
Telz (Telšiai)	Kovno	183,351	22,695	12%	607	82	3%
Shavl (Šiauliai)	Kovno	237,934	34,348	14%	713	161	2%
Kovno Gubernia Total		1,544,564	212,666	13.7%	11,737	2,159	5.5%
Vilna (Vilnius) (not including city of Vilna)	Vilna				1,728	316

* From the Statistical Summaries published by the Imperial Russian government in 1905, available on LDS microfilm. 

How this translation was obtained

In 1999, Howard Margol finalized an agreement with the Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius, for the Archives to translate the information from the 1897 census records into English, key the data into a computer, and send the data to him on diskettes.  The entire project was completed in February 2000.  Peggy Freedman helped co-ordinate the data collected for the project.  The translated data was moved from Word documents into a database, and now, thanks to the JewishGen wizards, is searchable by name, place, soundex value and keyword.
Howard donated the Word documents for the entire translation of existing Jewish records from the 1897 census to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The FHL re-produced this document on microfiche.  The title on the microfiche is "1897 census extracts from Lithuania".  The Family History Library Catalogue (FHLC) description....