Need info on my great grandmother Etta "Itka" KAUFMAN(N) b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago; m. Hillel "Eli", "Gilel", "Hirsh", "Abelovich", MARGOLIS b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago. She had a brother Ephraim an

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I have been researching for the past several years on my great grandfather Yeshaya Meyer Kram. While I have been able to uncover birth and cirucumcision documents for his children in Mitau, now Jelgav

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In addition to the sources that Sherri listed, there is a short memoir on Tukums on the Courland Research Group web site, translated from the records of the Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews. h

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Thank you for this important information, and thank you to all of the volunteers at LatviaSIG and the archivists who have been so helpful. Carol Hoffman, PhD LitvakSIG President

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Websites for Talsi and Valdemarpils, Latvia are up and running, and I’m thrilled to announce our first post by a guest writer. Milton Taylor has written about his JORDAN family from Talsen at https://

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The SIG and BOF sessions will be recorded and kept for 30 days, I'm told. I fully understand not wanting to stream a meeting in the wee hours of the morning! Marion Werle Co-Director, JewishGen Latvia

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Wonderful new website, clear to understand and navigate plus esthetically pleasant. Kudos Kol hakavod! Carol Hoffman

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My updated sites for Talsi/Talsen and Valdemarpils/Sassmacken, Latvia, are now up and running. Talsi - https://mycourlandtowns.wordpress.com/talsi/ Valdemarpils - https://mycourlandtowns.wordpress.com

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Years ago, I created ShtetlLink websites for Valdemarpils and Talsi, Latvia, which I have long neglected. I’m now working to revive and update the sites and would love to involve other descendants fro

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Visited Pier 21 in 2019. Did not find relatives there, but did find a picture of a Holland Amerika Line ship I'd ridden in the early 60's that was heavily used also to bring immigrants from Holland to

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Our informal Friedman family records indicate Courland roots for the family before they moved to Pasvalys, Lithuania. One of the children named her birthplace as "Riga, the port of Courland." Another

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Your grandfather was born in Liepaja formerly Libau in Latvia. I checked the Internal Passsports handed in to the Riga Police 1919-1940 for Liepaja. Do not be put off by the dates. Your family left lo

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Sorry I meant the Russian Empire ceased to exist after 1919. Arlene Beare Co-Director Latvia Research Division

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At the above link, under "The Format of the Vital Records," it says, "The left side is completed in Russian [or very occasionally in German, in the case of Courland]; and on the facing page the same d

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REMINDER for our quarterly meeting where we will be launching a new database and updating you on our recent activities. We will open the meeting to discussion and look forward to hearing from you abou

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Some years ago, Martha Lev-Zion generously translated and donated to JewishGen an abstract of the family register of the heads of Jewish families in Goldingen in 1842. Often these manuscripts contain

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Unfortunately our contact email address did not appear correctly when we posted it for our meeting on December 6th. The contact address to sign on for the meeting is latviaRD@... We look for

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I am happy to report that the Riga Ghetto and Latvia Holocaust Museum is saved. The Riga City Council unanimously supported further development of the Riga Ghetto Museum Shamir Association 13 NOV 2020

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We lost a great deal with the cessation of Research by the Latvian State Historical Archives. The work they have done for us over many years has been invaluable and greatly appreciated. Nonetheless it

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Please note that the updated address for Volunteers to any of our Projects is- LatviaRD@... Arlene Beare Co-Director Latvia Research Division

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