The LatviaIn long form the Republic of Latvia (in Latvian : Latvija and Latvijas Republika), is a northern European country in the Baltic States. Located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it has land borders with Lithuania to the south, Estonia to the north, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast and a sea border with Sweden to the west.
Latvia has been a Member State of the European Union since 1 January 2004.er May 2004 and the Eurozone since 1 Januaryer January 2014.
Site for genealogical research :
Raduraksti project
In 2010, the Latvian Archives created a virtual reading room, the Raduraksti website, which provided access to parish registers (including rabbinate vital records), Livland and Curonian revision lists, surviving copies of the All-Russian Census and information on university students. . The website was completely redesigned and moved in February 2020. Unlike the old website, where the user had a choice of languages, the current website of Raduraksti is only in Latvian. This is an image from the Raduraksti homepage:
Available collections
Church books
Registers of congregations of various denominations - births and baptisms, marriages, deaths (to 1914).
Soul audits
Census data in Vidzeme and Kurzeme during the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Books for the home
Books of the Riga City House (late 19th century to 1918).
Riga Polytechnic Institute
Records, lists and diplomas of faculty and students.
Population census
Census documents of the whole of Russia (1897)
Memories of the past
Video memories of people
Passports of Latvian citizens
Collection of passports of Latvian residents (1918-1940)
Students from the University of Latvia
Database of students of the University of Latvia (1919-1944)
Residents expelled from Latvia
List of persons deported by the USSR occupation regime (1941-1953)
JewischGen
To preserve our Jewish family history and heritage for future generations.
JewishGen serves as the global home for Jewish genealogy. Offering unparalleled access to millions of records, it provides unique research tools, as well as opportunities for researchers to connect with others who share similar interests.
The database is regularly updated by over 1000 volunteers who come to us from a variety of different backgrounds, circumstances and experiences - but who all believe in our mission, understand the importance of our work and in the heritage we preserve.
The sources come from civil status, electoral lists, passenger lists, holocaust
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/latvia/
Other tracks
http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/latvia/index.html
http://pases.arhivi.lv/index.php?temavb=lv
Sources :
https://www.raduraksti.arhivi.lv/
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/latvia/
https://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/latvia/index.html
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettonie
https://www.ancestry.fr/search/places/europe/latvia/
Liliane Hierro, Gen@Europe, 2022 edition, pp 88
Available from the author Liliane Hierro contact.internetgenealogy@gmail.com at the price of 12 €.
Or in the GéniWal shop: https://geniwal.be/boutique/ at the price of 12 €.
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