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What language are the records in the Lithuanian archives written in?

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What language are the records in the Lithuanian archives written in?

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Pre 1840 vital records are written in Polish. Pre-World War I records are in Russian Cyrillic. Jewish vital records are in Cyrillic and duplicated in Hebrew or Yiddish. Post-World War I records are in Lithuanian. However, there can be exceptions. Pre-World War I records in the Memel (Klaipeda) Archive were written mainly in German. One-third of those records are in Archive (E) above, one-third are in a small town in Eastern Poland, and the remaining third in an archive in Berlin, Germany.