The Latvian government in 2007 created a website to provide free access to vital records.[i] In Latvian Jewish Vital Records – Exploring Raduraksti, you can learn how to access these records. The records date from the mid-1800s through 1909. The records will help you identify previously unknown family members and recreate family groups lost because of the Holocaust and emigration.
If you have not read the guide to accessing the records on Raduraksti, click here. If you would like to find your family's births in the Latvian vital records, this new guide will assist you in understanding the format in which the records are written. Click here to learn how to navigate a birth record and what information items are included in a sample record.
[i] Latvian State Historical Archives,Raduraksti (http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/en.html : accessed 13 February 2015), Project page.
If you have not read the guide to accessing the records on Raduraksti, click here. If you would like to find your family's births in the Latvian vital records, this new guide will assist you in understanding the format in which the records are written. Click here to learn how to navigate a birth record and what information items are included in a sample record.
[i] Latvian State Historical Archives,Raduraksti (http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/en.html : accessed 13 February 2015), Project page.
