ResourcesGeneral Latvian Genealogy Resources Raduraksti - a project of the Latvian State Historical Archives. Digital images from Latvian church records, the 1895 Census and revision lists. ROOTS=SAKNES - provides an excellent overview of what every researcher in Latvian genealogy and family history should know before starting out. International Tracing Service - if your family emigrated from Latvia during the Second World War and spent time in Displaced Persons camps after the war, you can place a request with the ITS to find out if they have any documentation in their files on your family during this time period. Ciltskoki - a Latvian-language site that provides indexes for records found on Raduraksti. Some parts of the site are available in English, but most is in Latvian. Surnames "Patrilines, Surnames and Family Identity: A Case Study from the Russian Baltic Provinces in the Nineteenth Century" by Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell in The History of the Family, Volume 5, Number 2, pages 199-214, 2000. Lexikon der Familiennamen, R. Kohlheim & V. Kohlheim, Dudenverlag, 2008. Uzvārdu došana Kurzemes un Vidzemes zemniekiem., Kr. Upelnieks, Valters un Rapa, 1938. Latviešu personu vārdu un uzvārdu studijas. E. Blese, Rīga, 1929. Translation Aids Historisches deutsch-lettisches/lettisch-deutsches Ortsnamensverzeichnis - City/town/parish names in Latvian and their German equivalents (exonyms). Wikipedia - more German exonyms in Latvia. Letonika - a wide range of online Latvian-other language dictionaries, including Latvian-English and Latvian-German. Englisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch, Sonderausgabe. Latvian-English/English-Latvian Dictionary, M. Sosāre & I. Birzvalka, Hippocrene, 1996. Vācu-Latviešu/Latviešu-Vācu Vārdnīca, L. Vjtare, Avots, 2005. Geographical Aids Baltic Maps - modern day searchable map. Latvijas ceļu karte, Š.Z. Departments, 1940. Latvijas topogrāfiskās kartes, Armijas štāba Ģeodēzijas-Topogrāfijas daļas izdevums mērogā 1:75 000, 1920-1930. CD produced by Jāna Sēta. |