Twentieth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
Tombstone Tuesday – Andrejs Å leiners and Ansis Jenzens
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Names:
Workers’ Newspaper – April 7, 1923
This is part of my series of interesting newspaper articles and snippets that I find in the old Latvian newspapers available through Periodika. Most of the articles I post are in some way related to migration, wars or other events
RÄ«ga Banns, Week of April 7, 1925
Part of my series of publishing the banns read in Rīga in the interwar period. See this post for more details. April 7, 1925 (Latvijas Vēstnesis [Latvian Herald], April 8, 1925) Military clerk Pēteris Mednis (Lubeja) and Elza Ceļmala (Gulbene)
Surname Saturday – Estates are Live on the Latvian Surname Project!
What do we have for today’s Surname Saturday? A new content category on the Latvian Surname Project! If you’ve stopped by the Latvian Surname Project recently, you may have happened across some of the work I’ve been doing adding surnames
WW1 Diary – April 3, 1916
Nineteenth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
Tombstone Tuesday – PÄ“ters Lodziņš, 1904-1930
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Name:
WW1 Diary – April 1, 1916
Eighteenth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
Riga Banns, Week of March 31, 1925
Part of my series of publishing the banns read in RÄ«ga in the interwar period. See this post for more details. March 31, 1925 (published in Latvijas VÄ“stnesis [Latvian Herald], April 1, 1925) Railway worker JÄnis Rudolfs KriÄ·is (Palsmane) and
Tombstone Tuesday – Milda and Eduards Miezis
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Top