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Tombstone Tuesday – Anton and Amalie Petersenn

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, September 2014. Click to enlarge. Names:

Antra September 22, 2015August 19, 2015 Cēsis, photographs No Comments

Tombstone Tuesday – Christian and Emilie Boehm

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, September 2014. Click to enlarge. Names:

Antra September 15, 2015August 19, 2015 Cēsis, photographs No Comments

Mappy Monday – The River Gauja

A lot of attention is paid to the Daugava, the biggest and longest river in Latvia, that goes through the middle of the country – but few outside of Latvia know about the Gauja river, which is the longest river

Antra August 24, 2015August 24, 2015 Cēsis, geography, history, Sigulda, Valmiera No Comments

Mappy Monday – Prefixes Everywhere!

Rural Latvia was and is covered with farms – usually quite small in size, and all with names. Many of these names have been around for centuries – in most cases, longer than surnames. Many of these farm names come

Antra August 3, 2015July 20, 2015 Cēsis, farms, geography No Comments

Tombstone Tuesday – Eduards Bielovs, 1895-1930

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, September 2014. Click to enlarge. Top

Antra July 21, 2015July 13, 2015 Cēsis, photographs 2 Comments

Tombstone Tuesday – EmÄ«lija Kauliņš, 1880-1941

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, September 2014. Click to enlarge. Name:

Antra July 14, 2015July 13, 2015 Cēsis, photographs No Comments

Baltic Farmer – May 2, 1884

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

Antra May 2, 2013January 24, 2013 Cēsis, migration, newspapers 1 Comment

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