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Latvia: Now on Google StreetView!

Google StreetView is now live for Latvia! Now, after doing some poking around, there are some caveats to this. I would not agree that there is “almost 100% coverage”, as some news articles say. While their coverage of RÄ«ga and

Antra May 16, 2012 farms, resources 4 Comments

Paying Attention to Details

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” –

Antra January 6, 2011January 4, 2011 family, farms, records 6 Comments

Working With Revision Lists

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the Kurland revision lists are up on Raduraksti. Good news – the Livland (Vidzeme) revision lists are up too! Now here is your guide to making sense of these documents! I’m going

Antra October 24, 2010 farms, migration, records, resources 7 Comments

Project Update – June 2, 2010

The Latvian Surname Project has been updated! The total name count is now 800, I added 200 new names including TRĪSTILTIŅŠ and PODNIEKS. Today I am also launching a new project, the Latvian Farm Project. The goal of this project

Antra June 2, 2010 farms, Latvian Farm Project, Latvian Surname Project, surnames 3 Comments
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