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So you have established that your ancestors lived on Latvian territory. But what were their ethnic origins? Latvia has been a multi-ethnic territory for centuries, so the distinctions between ethnic groups might not always be so clear in the old records. There are, however, numerous ways in which to establish someone’s ethnic identity. They are not [...] 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 [...] When Latvian peasants were choosing surnames after emancipation from serfdom, they were strongly encouraged by the German and Russian rulers to choose names in their own language, and were forbidden to choose names of local nobles or famous people. While not all obeyed this directive and chose German names (or had German names assigned to them [...] This edition of Surname Saturday is about the surname Kukurs. I have chosen this surname for two reasons – a person with this surname in my family tree is currently giving me trouble, and I happened across the definition of this word in my Latvian etymological dictionary while looking for something else. The root of the word [...] 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 [...] Today I’m featuring one of the new surnames I’ve discovered in my family tree – Radziņš (feminine form Radziņa, the surname of one of my great-great-grandmothers. Marija Radziņa was born on November 16, 1856. I am not sure yet where she was born, but she married Pēteris Celmiņš sometime before 1878, when their first child was [...] So I have arrived in Latvia, and today I made my first trip to the Latvian State Historical Archives. And I may have already found something! Since it takes them a few days to find and bring out the requested documents, for the most part today was just filling out the forms to request the items I [...] Participating in my first Geneabloggers daily blogging theme – Surname Saturday! The surname up this week is Baburs. The most recent ancestor I have with this name is Karolīne Matilde Baburs, born in Riga and baptized in the Church of Jesus parish in the late 19th century, to Mārtiņš Baburs and his wife Ēde. Mārtiņš’ father, Ādams, [...] When doing your research, have you ever come across a family – not your own – that appears to have a story to tell, and you want to find out what that story is? This has happened to me while looking at the Limbaži parish registers. While looking at the christening records, the records where no father [...] |
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