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Latvia! Anyone help?

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RStar

RStar Report 4 Jul 2023 17:55

Thankyou

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 4 Jul 2023 17:35

Google suggests a website called celima.com. Might be worth a look.

RStar

RStar Report 3 Jul 2023 21:43

Thankyou x

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Jul 2023 21:17

Ancestry has some Latvian records, though in Cyrillic script, and most seem to date from the 19th century.

Krilovs, or similar, seems to be a common name - records in early 20th century in Smolensk, Kaliningrad, Samara, Estonia, various parts of Russia .

However, I don't see any Krilovs in Latvia among those later records.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Jul 2023 20:52

Unfortunately Latvia is one many countries where you have to know which town or area the person came from before you can start searching.

Some advice here:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Latvia_Genealogy
https://www.cyndislist.com/baltic/

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

RStar

RStar Report 3 Jul 2023 19:41

After 17 years I have a close dna match on my Latvian side, finally. I can’t find anything on ancestry or family search, records wise, but the man I match with has a small tree, he has a great grandfather named Aleksejs Krilovs born 1914.I believe he was the younger brother of my great grandfather Aleksander Krilovs, but I need to prove this. We don’t know when Aleksejs died, and info is sketchy on both sides as nobody would discuss the family for some reason.