Up to, and including 1858, the census was called a revision list. Revision Lists were revised or updated, sometimes several times, until the next census was recorded. Such information frequently covered a period of ten years or more. Revision Lists are by far the most useful of all of the 19th century records.
Some records contain additional notations written in Yiddish or Hebrew.
This major table contains revision, family, census, and town residents lists for the years from 1795 until the early 20th century, for most of the districts in the old Vilna and Kovno guberniyas - more than 150 towns that today lie within Disna, Kaunas, Lida, Oshmiany, Panevezys, Raseniai, Siauliai, Telsiai, Trakai, Ukmerge, and Vilnius districts. It is important to read the full description of the Revision List at least once and to be able to refer back to it as needed. All spellings within the translated databases use the current Lithuanian names. To check on alternate spellings or names for your shtetl, or to find out in which Uyezd or Guberniya was located, please go to the Shtetl, Uyezd, Guberniya table page. Very few surnames appear in the earlier Revision Lists.