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Rīga Passport Database Index is Available!

Okay, so admittedly, I’m late with this post, since the database I’m going to talk about came online a few months ago, but with the other projects I’ve got going on, I hadn’t gotten around to this post yet. Better

Antra March 20, 2014 Raduraksti, Rīga, records, resources 6 Comments

52 Ancestors #11: Kristīne Kukure

Time for Week 11 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. At the close of last week’s post, I mentioned that

Antra March 15, 2014 family, Limbaži 1 Comment

52 Ancestors #10 – Ä’de Jansone

Time for Week 10 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestors is Ä’de Jansone, born May 27, 1845,

Antra March 8, 2014 family, Rīga 1 Comment

52 Ancestors #9: Kače Rožlapa

Time for Week 9 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is Kače Rožlapa, born c. 1822 and

Antra March 1, 2014 family, Vijciems 1 Comment

52 Ancestors #8: Pēteris Celmiņš

Time for Week 8 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is PÄ“teris Celmiņš. Now, the first question

Antra February 21, 2014 family, Vijciems 1 Comment

52 Ancestors #7: Līze Mildere

Time for Week 7 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is LÄ«ze Mildere, born April 27, 1825,

Antra February 15, 2014 Burtnieki, family, farms 1 Comment

52 Ancestors #6: Jēkabs Francis

Time for Week 6 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is JÄ“kabs Francis, born March 25, 1825,

Antra February 9, 2014 Burtnieki, family 2 Comments

52 Ancestors #5: Marcis Šīrs

Time for Week 5 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. This week’s ancestor is Marcis Å Ä«rs, born c. 1792 and

Antra February 1, 2014 Burtnieki, family 2 Comments

52 Ancestors #4: Anna Liepa

Time for Week 4 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge! As noted in my first post of this challenge, I am starting with my most ancient known ancestors. Like last week, however, this week’s ancestor is more recent.

Antra January 25, 2014 family, Rīga 1 Comment

Bringing Out the Great-Grandfathers, Part 2

Part 2 in my series on my great-grandfathers. Part 1 is here. Today’s great-grandfather is ArvÄ«ds Vilhelms Francis. ArvÄ«ds was born on August 7th, 1894 (Old Style) at one o’clock in the afternoon at Kroņi farm on the Nābe estate,

Antra October 1, 2013September 26, 2013 family, Liepāja, Limbaži, military, war 2 Comments
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