{"id":508,"date":"2023-01-20T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T09:24:24","slug":"comment-retrouver-vos-ancetres-en-lettonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/comment-retrouver-vos-ancetres-en-lettonie\/","title":{"rendered":"How to trace your ancestors in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Latvia<\/strong>In long form the Republic of Latvia<\/strong> (in Latvian : Latvija<\/em> and Latvijas Republika<\/em>), 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia has been a Member State of the European Union since 1 January 2004.er<\/sup> May 2004 and the Eurozone<\/a> since 1 Januaryer<\/sup> January 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Site for genealogical research<\/strong> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raduraksti project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/a>of Raduraksti<\/a> is only in Latvian. This is an image from the Raduraksti homepage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available collections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church books<\/a>
Registers of congregations of various denominations - births and baptisms, marriages, deaths (to 1914).
Soul audits<\/a>
Census data in Vidzeme and Kurzeme during the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Books for the home<\/a>
Books of the Riga City House (late 19th century to 1918).
Riga Polytechnic Institute<\/a>
Records, lists and diplomas of faculty and students.
Population census<\/a>
Census documents of the whole of Russia (1897)
Memories of the past<\/a>
Video memories of people
Passports of Latvian citizens<\/a>
Collection of passports of Latvian residents (1918-1940)
Students from the University of Latvia<\/a>
Database of students of the University of Latvia (1919-1944)
Residents expelled from Latvia<\/a>
List of persons deported by the USSR occupation regime (1941-1953)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JewischGen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other tracks<\/strong>
http:\/\/www.genealogylinks.net\/europe\/latvia\/index.html<\/a>
http:\/\/pases.arhivi.lv\/index.php?temavb=lv<\/a>

Sources : <\/strong>
https:\/\/www.raduraksti.arhivi.lv\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/databases\/latvia\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.genealogylinks.net\/europe\/latvia\/index.html<\/a>
https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lettonie<\/a>
https:\/\/www.ancestry.fr\/search\/places\/europe\/latvia\/<\/a>
Liliane Hierro, Gen@Europe,<\/em> 2022 edition, pp 88
Available from the author Liliane Hierro contact.internetgenealogy@gmail.com<\/a> at the price of 12 \u20ac.
Or in the G\u00e9niWal shop: https:\/\/geniwal.be\/boutique\/<\/a> at the price of 12 \u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image credit<\/strong> : https:\/\/www.planet.fr\/societe-dans-quels-pays-trouve-t-on-les-gens-les-plus-grands.1906532.29336.html?page=14<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Lettonie, en forme longue la r\u00e9publique de Lettonie (en letton : Latvija et Latvijas Republika), est un pays d’Europe du Nord faisant partie des pays baltes. Situ\u00e9e sur la rive orientale de la mer Baltique, elle poss\u00e8de des fronti\u00e8res terrestres avec la Lituanie au sud, l’Estonie au nord, la Russie \u00e0 l’est, la Bi\u00e9lorussie au sud-est et une fronti\u00e8re maritime avec la Su\u00e8de \u00e0 l’ouest. La Lettonie est un \u00c9tat membre de l’Union europ\u00e9enne depuis le 1er mai 2004 et […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115,120,100,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-du-nord-et-nord-ouest","category-lettonie","category-nos-pistes","category-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolus.info-brihaye.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}