After six months of hard work and fiddling around with the new software, I’m proud to present the all-new version of the Latvian Surname Project! What’s new… … you can browse surnames by parish! … you can see old spellings
Three Years!
This blog is three years old today! As I’ve said in previous blog anniversaries, when I first started this blog, I never imagined that I would get the response that I have. I’ve had people contact me from all over
Ļ is for Ļaudis
We’ve stumbled onto a particularly difficult letter for the Family History Through the Alphabet challenge… Ä». “Ä»” is an odd letter – sort of like the “ll” in “million”, with more of a “y” added to it. The only word
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 TRĪSTILTIŅŠand PODNIEKS. Today I am also launching a new project, the Latvian Farm Project. The goal of this project
Project Update – April 22, 2010
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
Project Update – February 15, 2010
The Latvian Surname Project has been updated! The Surname Project has 153 new names, including BÄ’RZLAPA and MIEŽUVÄ€RPA. That brings the total number of surnames in the project so far to 521! I’m afraid I don’t have a Record Project
Project Update – January 31, 2010
The Latvian Record Project and the Latvian Surname Project have been updated! The Surname Project has 100 new names, including KALÄ’JS and ZVEJNIEKS. The Record Project has 368 new records in Limbaži marriages 1890-1899. That’s all for this update! Updates
Project Updates – January 21, 2010
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,
Latvian Surname Project
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