Family Lists (инвентарные или семейные списки) in the Lithuanian archives are late–19th to early–20th century records of the population kept as registers of households. They were created by the Russian imperial administration and kept separately for each religious community, including Jews. For Lithuanian Jews, these lists were generally compiled in Russian (using Cyrillic) with a corresponding entry in Yiddish/Hebrew.
Many Family Lists function like a running register: later notes can add deaths, moves, or changes of status to earlier entries, making it possible to track the family over time in a single record group.
The images below are copies of the 1887 Family List of the Jonava Community for the family of our ancestor, listed as Solsky, Shlioma Girsh, Zusman’s son. They were obtained and translated from the Russian by FAST Document Services in 1994.
The family was large enough to require a second page in the 1887 Family List of Jonava
