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[This post is written for the 24th edition of the Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy, hosted by Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research.] The topic for this Carnival is Tips, Tricks and Websites. I’ve already outlined the websites useful for Latvian research, but I’ll list them here again, with some other potentially useful websites: LVVA’s “Raduraksti” – the [...] I’m currently traveling, so I hadn’t checked in at LVVA’s “Raduraksti” for a week or so. Today I visited the site, and discovered that the records for the Latvian parishes of the 1895 All-Russia Census are live and available for browsing! I haven’t yet had the opportunity to examine them in detail, since I only spotted [...] I will be in Latvia in five weeks (currently in London, slowly making my way through northern Europe towards Latvia), and while there, I will be visiting the Latvian State Historical Archives (LVVA; the archives that sponsors “Raduraksti”, which I have mentioned before). As such, it has come time that I establish my priorities in determining [...] So you have found the parish in Latvia where your ancestors would have attended church. Now comes the question – what kind of information, and how much, will you be able to glean from it? I’ve found that the amount of information provided in Latvian parish registers is not consistent, sometimes not even within the same [...] My maternal grandfather was from Limbaži, in northern Latvia. All I know about his family comes from my mother and my grandfather’s sister. I have not yet been able to find any official record of the family. However, since I know where they lived (and have in fact visited the farm), I have begun combing the [...] If in the course of your research you have come across a Latvian ancestor, and you do not speak Latvian, you may feel like you have hit a big stumbling block to continuing your research. Good news! The block may not be as big as you think. You may not need to know any Latvian at [...] |
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