Some of the Lithuanian documents people need in English come from family history: families of Lithuanian descent in the U.S. and the UK request their great-grandparents' birth and marriage records from the archives. Others are current business. Inheriting a house or land in Lithuania means reading the notary's certificate of inheritance and an extract from the real property register, people going abroad to study or work need their diplomas and register extracts in English, and companies signing with Lithuanian firms check the legal entities register extract first. The English version keeps the original layout, so every name, number and date can be found in the same spot on the original.
Lithuanian adds nine letters to the Latin alphabet: ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū, ž. The hooks under ą, ę, į and ų and the dot on ė are tiny on a scan, and losing one turns the letter into another. Names and place names change with grammatical case: Vilnius becomes Vilniaus in Vilniaus universitetas (Vilnius University), and the English has to restore the base form. Women's surnames also change with marital status: in the Kazlauskas family a daughter is Kazlauskaitė before marriage and usually Kazlauskienė after, or Kazlauskė, a form that does not show marital status. Numeric dates run year-month-day, as in 2024-03-15, and formal text writes 2024 m. kovo 15 d., where m. stands for year and d. for day.
These are the Lithuanian-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
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Not necessarily. Lithuanian women's surnames change form with marital status, and the unmarried, married and neutral forms are all legal, so one person's surname can genuinely differ between a birth record and a marriage record. The English version transliterates what each original says and does not merge the forms into one. If documents you send abroad show different surnames, add an explanation yourself where it is needed.
Both. From 1992 to 2016 the document was a marriage certificate (santuokos liudijimas); since 2017 it has been an extract from the register (santuokos sudarymo įrašą liudijantis išrašas). Their layouts differ, and the English version follows the layout of whichever one you upload.
Place names keep their Lithuanian spelling, while generic terms such as administrative units are translated. In the original, place names often appear in the genitive, such as Vilniaus or Kauno, and the English has to restore Vilnius or Kaunas, a step that occasionally goes wrong. If you need a place name elsewhere, go by the official list of place names.
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