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WW1 Diary – Sometime After January 7, 1917

Thirty-fifth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra February 6, 2014February 5, 2014 family, migration, Valmiera, war No Comments

WW1 Diary – January 1, 1917

Thirty-fourth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra January 1, 2014December 27, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war 1 Comment

WW1 Diary – Third Day of Christmas, 1916

Thirty-third installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra December 27, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war No Comments

Missed Diary Entries

With everything that has been going on, I missed posting two of the diary entries from my great-great-aunt’s First World War diary. I have now posted and backdated them, so you can go back to take a look: November 25,

Antra December 6, 2013 administrative, family, migration, Valmiera, war No Comments

WW1 Diary – November 30, 1916

Thirty-second installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra November 30, 2013December 9, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war No Comments

Five Cents – November 25, 1927

This is part of my series of interesting newspaper articles that I find in the old Latvian newspapers available through Periodika. Most of the articles I post are in some way related to migration, wars or other events that are

Antra November 25, 2013January 24, 2013 migration, newspapers No Comments

WW1 Diary – November 25, 1916

Thirty-first installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra November 25, 2013December 6, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war 1 Comment

WW1 Diary – November 20, 1916

Thirtieth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra November 20, 2013October 3, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war 1 Comment

WW1 Diary – October 5, 1916

Twenty-ninth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to

Antra October 5, 2013October 3, 2013 family, migration, Valmiera, war No Comments

Research on Second World War Displaced Persons

I am posting this on behalf of a member of the FEEFHS (Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies) Facebook group, since I know a number of readers here are descendants of Second World War Displaced Persons, and could thus

Antra October 3, 2013 history, migration 2 Comments
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