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 is to match old farm names to their pre-WW2 parishes, as well as begin a study on [...]
The Latvian Surname Project has been updated!
I have added 80 new names, including MUITNIEKS and SALNA. I went to records in several different corners of Latvia for this one, so there are names from parishes such as Rucava in the west and Saliena in the east.
I’ve got a big push of indexed records to add, [...]
The Latvian Surname Project has been updated!
The Surname Project has 153 new names, including BĒRZLAPA and MIEŽUVĀRPA. That brings the total number of surnames in the project so far to 521!
I’m afraid I don’t have a Record Project update this time – life has gotten in the way. I’ve also had a bit of trouble [...]
The Latvian Record Project and the Latvian Surname Project have been updated!
The Surname Project has 100 new names, including KALĒJS and ZVEJNIEKS.
The Record Project has 368 new records in Limbaži marriages 1890-1899.
That’s all for this update! Updates will happen, on average, every ten days.
The Latvian Record Project and the Latvian Surname Project have been updated!
The Surname Project has 61 new names, including LAPSA and DZĒRVE.
The Record Project has 1075 new records, including Limbaži baptisms 1900-1905, Lēdurga baptisms 1900, Limbaži marriages 1900-1905, Lēdurga marriages 1900 and Suntaži marriages 1900-1905. For all records, Limbaži is missing 1904 and Suntaži is [...]
Squeaking in for Surname Saturday (in somebody else’s timezone…)…
Today, I bring you the launch of the Latvian Surname Project!
The most common search term that brings people to my blog is “Latvian surnames”. Therefore, I thought starting a resource on Latvian surnames and their meanings could be helpful to a lot of people.
So far, there are [...]