True Lithuania heritage search and more
True Lithuania is a website aiming to be an informative and well-illustrated English source on Lithuania created by a Lithuanian native Augustinas Žemaitis, a lawyer and avid traveler (recipient of Lithuanian tourism department prize "For persistence in travel and life"), as well as a Lithuanian heritage researcher.
Contact us at tour.baltic@gmail.com.
Services we can provide
True Lithuania provides or helps organize the following services:
*Legal services in Lithuania (the website owner is a member of the Lithuanian Bar Association).
*Archive search inside Lithuania for the birth, marriage, death and other records of your ancestors or relatives.
*Restoration of Lithuanian citizenship based on ancestry.
*Sale of images of Lithuania (all the ones available on this website may be provided in a good resolution, and our database is more extensive than that).
Free online guides we offer
*Guides to Lithuanian cities, towns, resorts, castles, religious sites, museums, valuable for tourists.
*Guides to practical life in Lithuania (transportation, shopping, restaurants, climate, dangers) valuable for both visitors and expatriates.
*The most extensive online English guides to Lithuania's ethnic and religious groups.
*The most extensive online Eglish guides on Lithuanian holidays, architecture, sports, music and famous personalities.
*A Lithuanian history guide that aims to be brief enough to be read at a single time yet complete enough to help you fully understand history and its results.
*Introductions to the Lithuanian politics, law, state symbols, language, theater, cinema, art, and literature.
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True Lithuania offers wide advertising possibilities. Our visitors are mainly tourists, expatriates, researchers and people who are descended from Lithuania. Most are from English-speaking countries but a significant minority is from other European countries.
June 30th, 2013 - 15:07
Augustinas
You may be the person who can help me. My ancestors lived in Kalviai (Kowalki)(Varena) It still exists. I cannot find any pictures of this community. Might you have a reference? I know who lived in the manor house in 1909 from the church census. I was wondering the simplest way of understanding who held these blocks of land going back to the middle ages. I know that my family (Stanielun) was represented in this village in 1795.
aciu labai
Jim Staneluis
June 30th, 2013 - 16:08
James, Kalviai is a small village (population 68) so there are few pics available. However by clicking here you may see a farmstead recently sold in Kalviai, with interior and exterior images. It looks like a traditional home of the area (forested Dzūkija); many homes look like this in the region. The simplest way to search for historical information is through the state archives.
May 12th, 2020 - 04:06
Repost: Sorry May have sent as a reply to another’s post
Hello
I was wondering if you could help me find my grandfathers address?
I am trying see if maybe I can find a picture of his home or neighborhood if it still exists.
His name is Vitas Gedgaudas He was born in 1931, in Rietavas, Lithuania, his father was Mykolas and his mother was Albertina (Jankauskas) Gedgaudas. They would all have lived together (with his two other brothers)
They left Lithuania in 1949/1950
Any help /information would be great !
Thank you
Kerri
I would appreciate any help
May 12th, 2020 - 06:24
HI, this may be possible with the archive search services we offer. This is not always possible, however, as not in all cases would the exact house be recorded in the archives.
February 19th, 2021 - 16:59
Hello,
I am looking for any documents or information on the following family members:
1. Michalina Jankowski (Bieksa/Bieksza) – my Grandmother born in Gierwinie/Gerviniai, Lithuania August 03, 1908.
2. Martynas Bieksa/Bieksza- born in Veiveriai, Lithuania May 13, 1918.
3. Mortiejus Bieksa/Bieksza born in 1876 4. Laurynas Bieksa/Bieksza born between 1811-1871 5. Piotr Bieksa/Bieksza born Gierwinie/Gerviniai, Lithuania June 29, 1905.
Thank you,
Steve Clarke
February 21st, 2021 - 15:57
We will send you an offer for heritage search in the archives by e-mail
June 2nd, 2022 - 00:25
Hi there! My name is Steve Krevisky. I know that my paternal great grandmother, Rose Krevisky, came to the US from Vilna in 1892. However, I would like to know if there were any relatives still there, who might have died in the Holocaust. Thanks for your help! Regards, Steve PS. It’s possible that our last name might have been spelled differently.
October 29th, 2021 - 18:30
Hello,
I’m Kenny and I’m trying to find any information on my Great, Great Grand father who’s name is Andrew Varenas born on May 8,1899 in Suvalkai, Vilkaviskis Lithuania. My Great Great Grand father was married to Donna McCunnis and they had a son Stanley Varenas who was married to Susannah Haswell Day. I’ve been doing the whole 23 and me, ancestry.com websites to learn more about my dads side of our family who come from Lithuanian. Those lineage websites can go back as far as my Great Grand father Andrew Varenas, I’m trying to find out who his father and mother were.
If anyone can help me with this information or where to start I sure would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Kenny
April 20th, 2022 - 02:48
please give me a call I may be able to assist you
Phone #1-310-782 7440 Kenneth Wayne Varenas
January 8th, 2023 - 19:48
James
There were two towns named Kalviai. Which one did your ancestors come from? I visited both back in 2019. The one is still very very rural and without modern conveniences and the other is up to date with modern times. My Grandfather emigrated from Kalviai back in 1906 coming through the port in Hamburg and eventually landing in Ohio. My records on him are pretty sparse.
You should visit one day because its a beautiful place.
June 30th, 2014 - 15:10
Labas,
I am hoping you are well and staying warm.
I am hoping you could help me again with the spelling of family names. I want to have the Lithuanian Archivers do some reseach for me but uncertain of spelling. I have seen my great-grandmothers name spelled Szarniukic, Scarniukic, Scheran, Sarna, Serna, it was pronounced Sirna. I know she came from Pacmevezys in 1900.
Her mothers last name was Yrameniuke and Petracrikic.
Any help would be appreciated.
aciu