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JewishGen Latvia Database
Welcome to the JewishGen Latvia Database.
This is a multiple database search facility which incorporates
all the databases listed below. These databases have been
contributed by the Courland Research Group,
the Latvia SIG and individual donors.
The combined databases have over 140,000 entries, referring to
individuals living in the area now known as Latvia.
The database is a work in progress and new entries are being
added regularly.
Component Databases:
All Latvia:
Livland Gubernia:
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Jewish Inhabitants of Riga, 1885/1886
2,650 entries, both male and female, listed as lawfully residing in Riga in about 1885.
References to over 4,000 individuals.
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Riga Tax Administration List
Over 12,000 entries, males and females, taken from the Riga Tax Administration
records compiled and amended during the years 1858-1917.
References to over 23,000 individuals living and working in Riga.
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The Extraordinary
Commission Lists: Riga
Over 2,000 individuals residing in Riga who are recorded as having perished
at the hands of the German forces, most during 1941.
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Riga Passport and Travel Documents Registration List 1900
Information on over 12,500 persons from throughout the Russian Empire,
who resided temporarily in Riga in 1900 and registered their presence and
travel documents with the police.
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Jewish Marriages in Riga, 1854-1921
Index of a register of 9,241 marriages, from the Latvian State Historical Archives
in Riga, dating from 1854-1921.
There are nearly 20,000 given names and surnames, listing the names
of both the bride and groom.
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Courland Gubernia:
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The Courland 1907 Duma Voters Lists
Names of 3,300 male Jews eligible to vote in the 1907 Russian Duma elections
in twenty of the major towns and villages of Courland gubernia, including entries
for the 1905 list of Jewish voters of Windau; References to nearly 5,900 individuals.
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Recruits Enlistment Registers and Family Lists
Names of adult family members extracted from official Jewish Military Recruits
Registers from ten major cities of Courland, together with an 1874 family census
list from Bauska.
Contains some 8,000 entries and over 11,000 named individuals.
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Passlosen - Jews without Lawful Permit
List of 990 Jews without a lawful permit (Passlosen), published in
the official Government Gazette, the Vedomosti, in the summer of 1855.
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Jews in Hasenpoth / Aizpute 1834
A database of over 1,000 male Jews lawfully entitled to reside in Hasenpoth
(now Aizpute, Latvia), taken from material microfilmed in the Riga Archives in 1941.
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The Kurland Young Men's Mutual Association
A database of 1,225 records relating to the early days of the landsmanshaft organization
for Courlanders in the United States between 1889 and 1945, part of an ongoing project.
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The Courland Vedomosti Database
Over 2,000 entries giving details of news reports and listings from the official
Russian News Gazette from Kurland between 1853-1860.
Vitebsk Gubernia:
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The Dvinsk / Daugavpils Family Lists
Over 8,200 entries providing some 14,000 names of members of the Jewish community
of Dvinsk, in Vitebsk gubernia [now Daugavpils, Latvia].
The list includes excerpts from Merchants lists, lists of petit bourgeois,
tax and military recruits lists.
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Jewish Family Lists of Rēzekne
Over 6,600 entries, members of the Jewish community of Rēzekne (Rezhitse, Rossitten),
in Vitebsk gubernia. Detailed information on each family, from 1898.
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1911 Vsia Rossiia Business Directory - Vitebsk
Data on 3,611 businesses in Vitebsk gubernia, from the 1911 "All Russia" business directory.
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Last Update: 20 Sep 2005 WSB
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