Unlisted records

The CD-ROM for "Avotaynu" is an interesting source for information of all kinds. Searching through it recently I came across two articles by researcher Yakov Shadevich from 1995 and 1996.

The 1996 article lists Revision Lists in the Vilnius archive. Now the surprising thing about this is that these Revision Lists are not in our database of records and they're not in the rtrfoundation listing.

Those for district shtetls is as follows:

Antaliepte 1882
Breslauja (Braslav) 1816–27, 1871, 1874
Breslauja-Slabada 1816–27
Dubinovo (Dubene) 1816–27
Dusetos (Dusiat) 1870–71, 1883
Kamajai 1871, 1875–76
Pandelys (Ponedel) 1871
Papile 1858, 1865
Rokiskis 1871
Salakas (Salok) 1816–27, 1848, 1858, 1860, 1871, 1872–75, 1880
Tauragnai (Targin) 1816–27
Vydziai 1816–27, 1871, 1882
Zarasai 1816–27, 1863–64, 1883

For some of the shtetls - Papilys, for example - these records are not matched by anything we had databased and represent a wonderful research opportunity.

The 1816-27 records may provide the vital link to the 1784 Grand Duchy census.

I'll write about Mr Shadevich's other article in due course....