Detroito lietuvių šeštadienio mokyklos prie Šv. Antano parapijos tarnybos žurnalas. IV grupė (pirmosios gimnazijos klasės). 1949–50 m. m.

This school register is a direct documentary artifact of Lithuanian cultural survival in postwar Detroit. Compiled just four to five years after the mass displacement of Lithuanians during World War II, it records the names of children—many of them likely the children of wartime refugees or earlier immigrants—who gathered on Saturdays to learn their ancestral language, history, and literature. The register captures not only who attended but what they were taught: Lithuanian grammar, the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz in its Lithuanian reception, and the history and faith of their homeland. The very act of keeping such a record in a repurposed American commercial ledger, inscribed in careful Lithuanian script, embodies the community's determination to transmit identity across generations and across an ocean.

As a genealogical and prosopographical source, the register preserves the Lithuanian-inflected names of over three dozen identifiable individuals—students and at least one teacher—whose family histories are intertwined with the Lithuanian-American community of mid-century Detroit. Surnames such as Petrauskas, Gladkauskas, Liaudanskis, Pajauytė, Špakauskaitė, and Janulevičiūtė anchor real families to a specific institution, place, and moment. For descendants of these families and for scholars of diaspora education, ethnic parish schools, and Lithuanian-American history, this document is irreplaceable primary evidence.

Organized ethnic Saturday school instruction in Lithuanian language, literature, history, and religion for second-generation Lithuanian diaspora children in Detroit, operating under the institutional umbrella of a Roman Catholic parish.