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Ralph Salinger was born in the United Kingdom, grew up in New Zealand. Now lives in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, Israel. He has researched his family history and discovered that Salinger's lived in VILKAKISKIS from around 1805 till 1941.
Ralph can be contacted at : salinger@kfar-ruppin.org.il |
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Wayne N. Frankel, Ph.D. is a Professor at The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine), and the Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Genetics, an open access research journal. Dr. Frankel's ancestors lived in Vilkaviskis for many generations prior to the emigration of his great-grandfather to New York in 1902. His cousins lived in Vilkaviskis until World War II; some survived, others did not."
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Mr. Antanas Zilinskas, Director of the Vilkaviskis Regional Museum, without his help and support we would have not got so far.
Antanas can be contacted at vilkaviskiokrastomuziejus@takas.lt Please go to the site of the Vilkaviskis Regional Museum http://www.muziejai.lt/Vilkaviskis/vilkaviskio_krasto_muziejus.en.htm |
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Mr. Algis Vaskevicius, a reporter for the Lithuanian national newspaper " LIETUVOS RYTAS " Algis has a deep interest in the subject and his superb knowledge of English has been a wonderful source of support.
Algis can be contacted at vaskevicius@lrytas.lt |
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With the kind and generous support of The Honorable Mr. Algirdas S Bagušinskas, Mayor of Vilkaviskis and his staff.
You can see the Vilkaviskis Municpal site at http://www.vilkaviskis.lt/ |
This site was created by Ralph Salinger
of Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin. Israel |