This week, while researching the land registry, I decided to look for additional information about the redemption of peasant farms. In...

I have previously written about searching for homesteads on maps, but this time I want to share my recent experience. In August and...

Why were farm names changed during the interwar period? What was the purpose of these changes, and how did it happen? This week has been...

Last time, I wrote about the 1941 census, and for the sake of completeness, I'll also share information about the 1935 population census....

Remember the story of Arvīds Pūrs, who was conscripted into the Latvian Legion of the Germany Army and ended up in England after the war?...