Latvian Genealogy Forum

If you want to start a One-Place Study group for a parish, please request it here and I will set up a sub-forum for you.

Can you make an Embute forum?? Its my main area of research!

Done and done! If everything went right, you've also been made a moderator of that forum.

Thanks Antra! Hope to hear from some other Embute-ians.. Embuters.. Embute-nieks..

The proper term is probably either "embūtnieki" or "embūtieši". Google search tells me "embūtnieki" is more common, so there you go!

Hi Antra,
I am interested in the Smiltene area, as you know. So, could a forum be set up for this area and I will try to add things to it. I'm not sure that I feel qualified to be a moderator? However, if it gets the ball rolling I would give it a go with your guidance until someone better informed than myself can take hold of the reins. Thank you

There are already bits of general history to be found on line, (http://www.smiltene.lv/uploads/uploads/ ... zs_pdf.pdf)
at the tourist information office for example. It is from that website that I have found the Smiltenes Novads monthly newspaper. They sometimes publish a dedication to the memory of someone, often with both the birth and death dates, but very often these are not known. As the ones that are printed in this newspaper include the years that are missing from Raduraksti I have compiled a list of them all and will try to attach them here. I will say straight off that I haven't translated them, thanks go to the Smiltenes Novads paper and the links to the relevant one are included, so please go to the original source to be sure that I have copied and pasted correctly. Lastly, I had trouble copying the correct accents so you will see a "v" type accent where there should be a - above the letter. Take care and check out original source for accuracy.

I just need to work out how to attach my saved compiled documents....Help Antra! Well, here's a rough version, but the formatting has changed, sorry, I'll try to fiddle about with this.

Name Date from - to Place

BISENIEKS EDUARDS 1901. g. 5. okt. - ? LAK ìenerâlsekretârs, þurnâla “Amatnieks” atbildîgais
redaktors. Maîjies Smiltenes vidusskolâ
Source: Smiltenes novada Domes Vçstis 2011. gada 30. Septembris

ZALÂNS ALFRÇDS 1936. g. 21. okt. bijuðais Smiltenes vidusskolas direktors, Smiltenes
pilsçtas izpildkomitejas priekðsçdçtâjs
no 1984. g. apr.- 1990. g. janv

RUPAIS ALFRÇDS 1896. g. 22. okt.
1966. g. 13. Jûl
- kaprâlis. LKO kavalieris. Strâdâjis Smiltenç par frizieri “

BIRZNIEKS PAULIS 1891.g. 29.okt 1966. g. 5. marts – ârsts, Sarkanâ Krusta Smiltenes slimnîcas direktors (1923.-1944.), pilsçtas domnieks, baznîcas draudzespriekðnieks, krâjkases padomes loceklis
“
ZADE KÂRLIS 1881. g. 7. febr. ? Smiltenes krâjaizdevumu sabiedrîbas valdes loceklis (no 1911. g.). Dzimis Smiltenes Zadçs
Smiltenes novada paðvaldîbas informatîvais bezmaksas
izdevums 28.1.2011. Nr. 6 (6)
http://www.smiltene.lv/uploads/uploads/
Smiltenes_novada_domes_vestis_2011_01.pdf

DAMBERGS DÂVIDS 1841. g. 9 febr. 1919. g. 28. okt skolotâjs, Smiltenes
draudzes çrìelnieks. No 1862. –1912. g. Smiltenes draudzes skolas skolotâjs un priekðnieks. Nodibinâjis Smiltenç pirmo vîru kori
“
JAÐKOVIÈS JÂNIS 1911. g. 11. febr 1991. g. 23. apr katoïu garîdznieks. No
1964.g. 5.sept.-1980.g. 21. apr. bijis Raunas un Smiltenes draudþu prâvests
“