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Eighteenth 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 flee with her husband and two young daughters to her family’s house near Limbaži as [...] Part of my series of publishing the banns read in Rīga in the interwar period. See this post for more details. March 31, 1925 (published in Latvijas Vēstnesis [Latvian Herald], April 1, 1925) Railway worker Jānis Rudolfs Kriķis (Palsmane) and Lisete Milda Beitels (Bauska) In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Top Inscription: “Še duss” (“Here rests”) Names: Milda Miezis (maiden name Zaul), born July 8, 1897, died June 6, [...] Seventeenth 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 flee with her husband and two young daughters to her family’s house near Limbaži as [...] Part of my series of publishing the banns read in Rīga in the interwar period. See this post for more details. March 24, 1925 (published in Latvijas Vēstnesis [Latvian Herald], March 25, 1925) Students Eduards Paulis Čaibe (Īle) and Hermīne Veronika Leimanis (Mežmuiža) In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Top Inscription (on cross): “Salda atpūta, pēc nobeigta dzīves darba” (Sweet sleep after completing life’s work) Top Inscription (on [...] Tracking down your ancestors’ activities in interwar Latvia can be tricky. The official records are not online. Any birth, marriage or death record needs to be obtained from a registry office, either by going in person (cheapest), ordering through an embassy (expensive, or direct from the registry office if you’re lucky) or by asking someone [...] 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 of particular genealogical note. Source: Jaunākās Ziņas (Latest News), March 16, 1940 New Surname, by Andris Bērziņš “It [...] In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Names: Minna Ozoliņš (maiden name Brauns), born 1862, died 1917; Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, born 1863, died 1937. Location:Meža kapi, Rīga 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 flee with her husband and two young daughters to her family’s house near Limbaži as [...] |
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