This is my Week #39 52 Ancestors post, and it is dedicated to a very recent ancestor of mine, my grandmother Aina Margrieta Līcīte, married name France, who passed away yesterday at the age of 95. Aina Margrieta (Līcīte) France
52 Ancestors #24: Brencis Līcītis
Time for Week 24 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is a relatively recent one, by virtue
52 Ancestors #23: Ieva (Lapiņa?)
Time for Week 23 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is Ieva Lapiņa (?), born c. 1847
52 Ancestors #13: IndriÄ·is Å telmahers
Time for Week 12 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is IndriÄ·is Å telmahers, born c. 1833 and
Bringing Out the Great-Grandfathers, Part 1 (updated)
I was looking through old blog posts recently, and realized that I started a series of posts on my great-grandfathers (almost four years ago now), but that I never finished the series. I only talked about one of my great-grandfathers!
V is for Vitebsk
So now the Family History Through the Alphabet challenge has the last Latvian province of the Russian Empire… Vitebsk! Like Livland, Vitebsk is also divided between different countries in the modern day. Only the northwest portion of Vitebsk is a
Wordless Wednesday – Last Looks, c. 1945-1955
The last photo I have of my great-grandparents Brencis and JÅ«le (b. Å telmÄhere) LÄ«cÄ«tis. I believe it was sent to their daughters in Canada sometime in the late 1940s, since Brencis died somewhere around that time, and JÅ«le died in
Wordless Wednesday – Two Martas, 1911
My great-grandmother Jūle Līcīte (b. Štelmahere) with her daughter Marta Līcīte (the baby) and her half-niece Marta Šmits (the older girl) , c. 1911. Marta Līcīte is my great-aunt, who passed away one year and one week ago. See my
Wordless Wednesday – School Play, 1925
Photograph of what is probably a school play or skit of some kind at the primary school in Krustpils, c. 1925. My grandmother is the girl in the middle of the first row.
War Stories
[This post is for the 28th edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy, which will be hosted right here. The Carnival post will be up on Friday!] Since I’m hosting this edition of the Carnival, I got