Three Days of Glory – A Romanov Visit to Riga in 1910
For three days in the middle of 1910, the city of Riga hosted an unprecedented visit by the Tsar of […]
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Daugavpils Prison “The White Swan”
An imposing white brick building rises four stories high in the center of Daugavpils City. It is surrounded by an
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Valdemārs Sailing Schools / Valdemāra jūrskola
In 1864, the famous Latvian scholar and nationalist, Krišjānis Valdemārs, founded a school in the northern coastal town of Ainaži.
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St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Riga
St. Martin’s Lutheran Church is one of the most prominent churches in Riga. Until the middle of the 1800s, there
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Iļģuciems – Industrial Riga in the Early 20th Century
The neighbourhood of Iļģuciems on the west bank of the Daugava River in Riga was an important industrial centre as
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Davis Rozenbergs / Rozenvalds & Aspazija
Aspazija is the pen name of writer, poet and playwright, Elza Rozenberga. Aspazija is one of the most famous Latvians
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Žanis (John) Zekants
Žanis (John) Zekants is the link between all the family lines in this story. All of this history in some
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Lavīze Vimba (born Rozenbergs / Rozentals)
Lavīze Rozenbergs/Rozentals was the only sibling of Kristaps Rozentals/Rozenvalds, my husband’s great-great grandfather. Their mother, Anna Rudzis, was unmarried when
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Anna Zelma Berkmanis (born Rozentals / Rozenvalds)
Anna Zelma was the youngest daughter of Kristap Rozenvalds and Anna Smiltnieks. She was born in 1898 on Ginguli farm
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Willi Droune
Willi was the second husband of Olga Rozentals/Rozenvalds. He was a Baltic German from the town of Kuldiga in western
Anna Rozenwalds (born Rudzis)
Anna Rozenvalds (or Rozenbergs) is my husband’s great-great-great grandmother. She is the also the earliest ancestor that we have a
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Jekob Zekants & Magreete Latīnis
Jekob Zekants and Magreete Latīnis are the parents of the five Zekants siblings that are at the heart of this family
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Indriks Zekants (Seekant)
Indriks Zekants (or Seekant as it was first written) was the first man to use the ‘Zekants’ surname in Latvia.
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Angrieta Blezurs (born Latīnis)
Angrieta Latīnis was born in 1863 to Indriks Latīnis and Dore Abolins. She was born, along with her six siblings
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Lizette Pudze (born Zekants)
Lizette was the eldest child of Jekob Zekants and Magreete Latīnis. She was born in 1876 near the town of
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