Record Atlas
14 FamilySearch collections · 1 archive · 40 places · 1226–2005

Latvia

Where the records of Latvia are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 32,188,833 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Latvia

1 of the 1 checked source here can be opened tonight. 1 needs a free account. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Latvia without a subscription.

Write to Raduraksti — Latvian State Historical Archives for what is not online. FamilySearch has 14 collections covering it, running 1226–2005, 32,188,833 indexed records. One piece of this ground is mapped for jurisdiction, so the atlas can say whose archive held it in a given year.

40 places placed, 0 volumes walked. Not one of them has had its paper counted yet, so treat the shelf here as a list of somewhere to look rather than a list of what survives. Open Latvia on the map, or tell us what is missing.

Whose archive this ground was

Record regions mapped in Latvia — which empire held the ground, and therefore which archive holds its paper.

The archives

  • Raduraksti — Latvian State Historical Archives Riga, Latvia

    Latvia's church registers, revision lists and the 1935 census, scanned. A free account, and the Baltic German Lutheran registers of Livonia and Courland are the bulk of it.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Latvia too — the full list.

14 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Latvia — nationwide 14

2 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 1
Civil registration and vital records 1
Censuses and population lists 1
Probate, land and notarial 1
Immigration and emigration 1
Jewish and minority 1

40 places, 0 volumes

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