So, how much do we need to raise?

There are, I am reliably told, 20,457 records for the district on the All Lithuania Database. Looking at the lists for what has been translated and what remains to be translated there is at least the same amount to go in terms of revision and other lists - and there may be more - I need to include all the information on www.rtrfoundation.org into our master list.

If we reckon on about US$0.60 per record, we'd need about US$15,000 to more or less complete the district records. If we allow for some contingency perhaps US$20,000 should be our fundraising target. At current funding rates this might take a long, long time to raise.

There are perhaps 450 researchers listed on JGFF for the district - so we need about 1/2 of them to become US$100 members of the Research Group. I might be very persuasive, but that might be beyond me. So I'm thinking about what we might be able to offer donors for much larger sums - say U$1,000 or US$5,000 - in terms of recognition. But as the old Hungarian recipe for rabbit stew says: "First, catch your rabbit..."

So who has contacts with anyone who might be able to directly or through a charitable foundation donate $1,000 and above? At this stage I just need some idea if anyone who reads this has potential contacts.

Comments please!