This post is for The Accidental Genealogist’s blogging prompts for Women’s History Month. Today’s prompt: If a famous director wanted to make a movie about one of your female ancestors who would it be? What actress would you cast in
WW1 Diary – March 5, 1916
Sixteenth 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
WW1 Diary – February 1, 1916
Fifteenth 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
Homeland – January 18, 1911
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
WW1 Diary – January 17, 1916
Fourteenth 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
WW1 Diary – January 6, 1916
Thirteenth 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
WW1 Diary – December 31, 1915
Twelfth 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
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus from Discovering Latvian Roots!
Merry Christmas, or, as you would say in Latvian, PriecÄ«gus ZiemassvÄ“tkus! Hope you and yours have a good holiday! And what would be a Latvian Christmas without pÄ«rÄgi (bacon buns)? Here is my dad, making pÄ«rÄgi yesterday… And here is
Z is for Zemnieki
What? No W, X or Y? Nope! Latvian does not have these letters, so we now have two left – Z and Ž. Now we have Z for the Family History Through the Alphabet challenge! “Zemnieki” is the Latvian word
V is for Vitebsk
So now the Family History Through the Alphabet challenge has the last Latvian province of the Russian Empire… Vitebsk! Like Livland, Vitebsk is also divided between different countries in the modern day. Only the northwest portion of Vitebsk is a