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Baltic Herald – January 11, 1906

This is part of my series of interesting newspaper articles and snippets 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 of particular genealogical or historical note.

Source: Baltijas Vēstnesis (Baltic Herald), January 11, 1906

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January 11th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: history, newspapers, Smiltene | 3 comments

Limbaži News – August 9, 1908

I occasionally browse the variety of newspapers available through the Latvian National Library’s website here and here. Newspapers can be a very valuable source of information, but many pre-World War 2 Latvian newspapers were written in blackletter font and old Latvian orthography, even in the 1930s. This typefont is not easy to read, but with [...]

April 6th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: newspapers | One comment
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