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Livonia= The aim of this project is to collect people who have born, lived, influenced or died in Livonia during the centuries under it. All the collaborators are welcome. Livonia is a historical region between the east and the west on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. Given the location the borders of Livonia have changed to an extent but, by and large, Livonia refers to areas which now co...
The Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, neighborhood of Riga, Latvia, designated by the Nazis where Jews from Latvia, and later from Germany, were forced to live during World War II. On October 25, 1941, the Nazis relocated all Jews from Riga and the vicinity to the ghetto while the non-Jewish inhabitants were evicted. Most of the Latvian Jews (about 24,000) were killed on Nove...
Jews of Estonia History of the Jews in Estonia Family Name Directory General Family Names List Louis Kahn Prominent Architect Eri Klas International Concert Conductor Yuri Lotman Renowned semiotician, and cultural historian. Moses Wolf Goldberg Famous Chemist (Wikipedia) --------------------------------------- This project will be used to collect informatio...
==The project " Trup Diaspora " is a genealogical project aimed to connect families known to be related, and, of family Trup.=====Nowadays the family exists under different names derived from Trup , such as Troop , Troup , Troupp , or Trupp , as well as under surnames people may have received via marriage or what-have-you. =====What is known (with some certainty) is:==i) The origins of the fami...
Apvidus, kurā saskaras Cēsu, Limbažu un Valmieras novadi. Straupes draudzes (un citu apkārtnes draudžu) baznīcgrāmatas atrodamas arī Cēsu mākslas un vēstures muzeja krājumā, daļa no tām digitalizētas vietnē Ciltskoki.lv. Straupes un Rubenes draudžu novadi līdz 1873.gadam ietilpa Rīgas apriņķī, vēlāk Valmieras apriņķī. Straupes draudzes novadā 1826. gadā bija šādas muižas: Straupes mācītājm...
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century until 1795, when its territory was occupied by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania included the lands of much of the former Kievan Rus and other neighboring states, including present-day Lithuania , Belarus , most of Ukraine , and parts of...
Cēsu apriņķa Sāvienas (Sawensee) muiža atradās Sāvienas ezera krastā, Ļaudonas ev.lut.draudzes novada teritorijā. Muižas teritorija bija mainīga, saistīta ar saimniecību pirkšanu, pārdošanu. Vācbaltu muižniecības dzimtas fon Helmersen (von Helmersen) valdījumā bijušas dažādas muižas mūsdienu Latvijas teritorijā, tajā skaitā arī Sāvienas (Sawensee) muiža kopš 1660.gada. Pirms tam muiža saistīta...
Kaiserwald Jewish DNA Project Kaiserwald was a Nazi German concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in Latvia.Kaiserwald was built in March, 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia. The first inmates of the camp were several hundred convicts from Germany.Following the liquidation of the Riga, Liepāja and Daugavpils (Dvinsk) ghettos in June, 1943, the remainder o...
Valmieras apriņķis (vācu: Wolmarscher Kreis, krievu: Вольмарский уезд, igauņu: Volmarimaa) bija administratīva vienība Vidzemes guberņas (1783—1918), Baltijas hercogistes (1918), Latvijas SPR (1919), Latvijas Republikas (1918—1940), Latvijas ģenerālapgabala (1941—1944) un Latvijas PSR (1940/1944—1949) sastāvā. Rīgas vietniecības sastāvā Valmieras apriņķis Rīgas vietniecības sastāvā (1783). Val...
The project includes index table of all Latvian Geneology projects and usefull information for finding Latvian roots. Collaborators are welcomed to add information, discussions etc on this project to help furder geneology research for beginners and profesionalists as well. Our main goal is building Latvian Lielkoks all together - to find relations between each other, get connected as whole nati...
Family Tree for all Jews in Latvia As a hobby, I hope to create a family tree for all Jews in Latvia, as far as I can go back. It started researching the family of my grandparents, I discovered how much Jews in Latvia linked among themselves. Up to now, as of 04/23/2011.I added over three thousand names of the Jews of Latvia, the work is still long, multi, I would be happy to cooperate with the...
Wikipedia: Jelgava Gymnasium Jelgava Gymnasium or Academia Petrina is the oldest higher educational establishment in Latvia. Only public profiles may be added to this project
Almost every single country has some nicely written presidental profiles. So I started to work on our Latvian president profiles.
Main information and table of contents taken from the book: Hitler's Foreign Divisions: Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen-SS 1940-1945, by Chris Bishop, Amber Books Ltd., London, United Kingdom, c. 2005. Book Introduction. "Even today, more than six decades after the outbreak of World War II, it still seems incredible that thousands of men whose countries had been conquered by the Nazis should...
The Pomorian soglasiye (Согласие, which means "creed" or "confession") is a group of bespopovtsy ("priestless") Old Believers, who abandoned the practice of receiving "runaway priests" after the death of the last pre-Raskol (schism) priests of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the absence of the priesthood, they began to elect literate laity to conduct services. The Pomorian creed was formed in ...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Latvia and Estonia: Fatalities="Please add to this project any profiles of those who suffered but survived the' Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great d...
University of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Universitāte, shortened LU) is a state-run university located in Riga, Latvia, established in 1919. The QS World University Rankings places the university between 801st and 1000th globally, seventh in the Baltic states, and 50th in the EECA (Emerging Europe and Central Asia) category.
Riga Technical University (RTU) (Latvian: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte) is the oldest technical university in the Baltic countries established on October 14, 1862. It is located in Riga, Latvia and was previously known as 'Riga Polytechnical Institute' and 'Riga Polytechnicum'.
Project start 10.6.2018 Under construction Narva I Tallinn-Reval I Tartto I Riga I Daugavpils I Daugavpils in english of name changes Dünaburg (1275—1656) Borisoglebsk (1656—1667) Dünaburg (1667—1893) Dvinsk (1893—1920) Daugavpils (1920—today) affiliations
This project seeks to unite Jewish families with ties to Bauska, Latvia, also known as Bausk, Bauske, Boisk, Boysk, Бауск / Бауска, and בויסק.Please consider joining the project if you have ancestors from, or an interest in the Jewish community of Bauska, and add profiles of those who were born, who married, who lived, who worked, who celebrated simchas (happy occasions), who died, and/or who w...
people==Friedrich Bernhard Albers, 18th century silversmith. Karl Constantin Kraukling, (1792-1873), Director of the Royal History Museum, Dresden. Arthur Böttcher, (1831 – 1889), pathologist and anatomist. Lazar Nisselovich, (1858-1914), member of the 3rd Russian Duma. Rav Avraham Isaac Kook, 1st Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine , (1865-1935), Bauska rabbi 1894-1904. Vilis Olavs, (...
Daugavpils Ghetto Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto (German: Ghetto Dünaburg) was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. It was located in southeastern Latvia on the Daugava River. The city was militarily important as a major road ...
1929.gadā izveidoja Aizsargu aviāciju A. Valeika vadībā , tās galvenie uzdevumi bija sagatavot jaunus lidotājus un uzturēt atvaļinātajiem lidotājiem augstu lidošanas prasmi. Reāli tā sāka darboties 1931.gadā. Tās biedri lidoja pa visu Latviju. Tai piederēja 31 jauna lidmašīna. 1932.gadā izveidojās Jūras Aizsargu aviācija. Aizsargu aviācija bija pakļauta Iekšlietu ministrijai.
Rīgas prefektūra dibināta 1918. gada 15. decembrī. Pirmais prefekts bija Jānis Dambekalns, pēdējais - pulkvežleitnants Pēteris Pommers (līdz 1939. gadam). Pie Rīgas prefektūras darbojās prefektūras apsardzes rota un policijas jātnieku nodaļa. Kārtībniekus sagatavoja Policijas skolā, kura dibināta 1919. gada 3. jūlijā, ar 3 mēnešu kursu. 1929-1939. g. jātnieku policijas komandieris Rīgas prefekt...
With this project we intend to find the earliest possible origin of the Steinfeld family name. Some of the starting family members of this project were born in Latvia, others in Ukraine etc. and their children generations later on moved to European countries like Norway, Sweden or Germany. Thus the search requires state and church register researches within these countries. Please feel free to ...