The Riga Rabbinate vital records
Метрические книги раввинатов Латвии

תיעוד שנעשה על-ידי רבנים והנמצא בריגה



My Grandfather Zalman- Eliokim Usdin,
 born in Vishki, Vitebsk gub.( Russia)  in 1889.
Died in Paris,  France in 1971.
WW1( click to see his Identity Card)
Translitteration and translation from Russian made by Christine Usdin..
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1897 Census:
* Vishki
* Dvinsk ( complete)
* Riga( work in progress)

Lifland( Riga district) records from 1867 to 1895:
Translation

The Vital Records
In italic and bold: translated records

AIZPUTES( HASENPOTH)

BAUSKAS
DAUGAVPILS
 GLAZMANKAS
 GRĪVAS
GROBIŅAS
 ILŪKSTES
 
 1861-1861 Divorced
JAUNJELGAVAS( FRIEDRICHSTADT)
 JĒKABPILS( JACOBSTADT)
 JELGAVAS
 KULDĪGAS( GOLDINGEN)
LIEPĀJAS
 LUDZAS
 MALTAS
PILTENES
 RĒZEKNES
 RIBINIŠKU
 RĪGAS
SABILES
SALDUS
SASMAKAS( VALDEMARPILS, SASSMACKEN)
SKAISTKALNES
SUBATES
TUKUMA
 VARAKĻĀNU
*The 1897 Census of Vishki
 - translation

*The 1897 Census
- Alterman in Dvinsk
 - Jewelsohn( Evelsohn) of  Riga
- Levenshtein in Goldingen
- Tzivian in Dvinsk
- Usdin in Dvinsk and Kraslava
- Sherman in Dvinsk


* Some names
- Alterman of Vishki, Dvinsk and Rezekne( Some came from Ludza)

* The Jewish cemetery of Vishki
- Tombstones(photos and transcriptions)

* Vishki (In Russian. На Русском)
"Было такое местечко"

* Vishki Phone Book. 1940
The Vishki phone book

*  Jewish cemeteries in Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraina

- The  Jewish cemetery of Vishki ( Latvia)
- The Jewish cemetery of Vishki. Video, that I took in May 2008( so moving...)
- The  Jewish cemetery of Dagda ( Latvia)
- The  Jewish cemetery of  Livani ( Latvia)
- The  Jewish cemetery of Preili ( Latvia)
- The  Jewish cemetery of Kraslava ( Latvia)
- The Jewish cemetery of Rezekne (Latvia)
- Map of the Jewish cemeteries in East Latvia  
 - The Jewish cemetery of Ludza (Latvia).Edited and scanned by Zeeva Levy and Chaim Freedman.
- The Jewish cemetery of  Gostini (Latvia). 
 - The Jewish cemetery of Talsi (Latvia)
 - The  Jewish cemetery of Kelme ( Lithuania)
- The  Jewish cemetery of Seduva ( Lithuania)
- The Jewish cemetery of Siauliai (Lithuania)
- The Ternivka mass grave site and the little cemetery (Ukraina)

* Diaries and remembrances

- Das tragische Schicksal des Genoch Dumesh in Vishky in 1941 und den Kriegstagebücher von Kurt Marien (in German)
- Le destin tragique de Genoch Dumesh a Vishky en 1941 et le journal de guerre de Kurt Marien ( in french)
- The tragic fate of the Genoch Dumesh  in Vishky in 1941 and the war diaries of Kurt Marien ( in english)

- The incredible story, that happened to me with the Rabbi of Kazan, Russia, Rabbi Gorelik, the Grandson of  the late Rabbi Nathan Barkan of Riga.
Watch here.


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