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My grandparents Zenta Lūkina and Juris Celmiņš got married on this day in 1943. I do not have their marriage certificate yet, but I do have several other documents that attest to this date as their marriage. I do, however, have this photograph from their wedding: I don’t know how Zenta and Juris met, though I have [...] My grandfather Aleksandrs Francis with the Fishwife Statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, c. 1945-1948. Fishwife Statue. Taken by me, November 2009. Click for full image. Image courtesy of a cousin from my Lūkins family line. Fishing manager JĒKABS ŠĪRS, 61 1/2 years old, born in Aloja, divorced. Died on October 4, 1923, at 10 o’clock in the evening in Rīnuži. Buried October 14, 1923 at the Baltās Baznīcas (White Church) cemetery. Daugavgrīva church book, 1923 deaths, #53. Jēkabs Šīrs was my [...] My grandfather Aleksandrs Francis was born on September 24th, 1920. The first twenty years of his life were, by all accounts, relatively normal for a middle-class Latvian youth growing up in the 20s and 30s. He attended an agricultural high school, followed by a degree in agronomy from the Jelgava Academy of Agriculture. Then in 1940, [...] This post is the first in a series that I’ll be making about events in my ancestors’ lives, on the days that the events took place. My reasons for this series are twofold – first of all, it helps me organize my own family documents and files, which is something that has been severely lacking, especially [...] Can anyone help identify the building in this photograph? I’m pretty sure it is in Denmark, since it is a photo of my grandmother from her collection of Displaced Persons camp photographs, c. 1945-1949. However, I haven’t been able to turn up any results. Also possible that it could be in northern Germany around Hamburg [...] It is too easy, especially when reading records that require interpretation of handwriting in an unfamiliar language, to pick out the main details – date of birth and parents – but ignore the details that are “not strictly necessary” – godparents, occupations, and so on. It is also easy to just scan for the surnames [...] In Loving Memory Marta Emīlija (Līcīte) Jakstāne June 26, 1911 – November 2, 2010 Marta Līcīte, c. 1946 My great aunt passed away last night. She was 99 years old. She was born on June 13 (O.S.)/June 26 (N.S.), 1911, in Krustpils, Latvia. At the time of her birth, Krustpils was a border town in Vitebsk guberniya in the Russian [...] Ever wonder how your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents did in school? You may just be able to find out. Numerous Latvian school records are held at the Latvian State Historical Archives, mostly for the inter-war period (1918-1940). Of course, to be able to use these records, you need to know where they went to school, and [...] [This post was written for the 30th edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy on the topic of "Arrival in New Lands", hosted by Al of Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research.] All four of my grandparents came to Canada for the same reason: to flee from the Communist terror that had overtaken their homeland [...] |
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