Salakas 1876 family list

In June we finally received and distributed the 1876 Family List for Salakas from the Kaunas archive thanks to one particular donation. It covers the period 1876 to 1887 and includes 5279 individual records. The most exciting feature of this list is that it includes ages for almost all women and girls. This is a rare feature.

The comments column is interesting. There is an entry for "murder and forgery", several conversions and one deportation to Siberia. It also shows the mass movement of families -mostly to nearby shtetls towns around the region - some of which we had not identified before on the district list including:

• Tilze (also known as Tylza) at 5540 2634, located 17.8 miles NE from Salakas in the NE corner of Lithuania where the Lithuanian , Latvian and Belarussian borders meet. Tilze is in Shtetlseeker and is on the northern shore of Lake Druskiu.
  
• Bachmatai/Bachmaty about 2 km south of Zarasai.