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Latvian (Kurland / Courland)
Revision Lists Index and Listing
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First Posted: 11 May 2000
"The Family History Library (FHL) has 132 microfilm reels of
revision lists from the former Russian province of Courland, now
part of Latvia. Some residence and tax lists are also included.
The films were from the Herder Institute at Marburg Germany. The
material was filmed at Latvia during 1940."
"The documents are almost all in German - a reflection of the
strong Protestant German influence in Latvia prior to World War
II. The records are a little tricky to use. The right and left
hand pages were filmed separately and sometimes in reverse order.
The material was spliced randomly. Consequently, segments from
individual volumes appear in multiple places on a single film or
on multiple films."
"This arrangement has necessitated the indexing of these records.
The following is the result od more than six months of analysis.
Part One consists of an alphabetical index by town.
Part Two consists of a contents listing of all 132
microfilm reels. (Webmaster's Note: see the hypertext links for
both parts below). While the index in part one is one is
sufficient to determine the correct film, item and page number of
revision lists for specific towns, part two is essential for
because of some additional problems in filming."
"First of all, the the lack of title boards labeling of the items
makes it very difficult to determine which items are which.
Secondly there are effectively no breaks in between items to
indicate when one item ends and the other begins. These listings
remedies this by offering a calendar presentation of all the
contents of each film, which can be used to locate specific
records by their proximity to other records."
"Both part one and part two include the localities, record types,
Family History Library (FHL) film numbers, item numbers and page
numbers. To indicate side of page, "r" means rtetro and "v"
means verso. Some page ranges are are shown backwards (154-130r)
indicating the pages are in reverse order. German terms are
listed as they appear in the original records. Localities
reflect German, rather than Latvian or Russian spellings."
Webmaster's Note: The text in quotations above is from the
article on this subject authored by Kahlile Mehr and appears in
Volume 6 of the FEEFHS Journal published in March 1999.
Interested persons can obtain these films from their nearest LDS
Family History Center
(FHC) .
I thank Kahlile for preparing this article and helping to obtain
the approval from the LDS senior leadership (Quorum of 12 and the
FHL Director) to enable it to be posted on this website. It is
one of only two genealogy databases (that I know of) to be
approved by the Family History Department of the LDS Church for
posting on a non-LDS website.
Latvian (Courland) Revision Lists
Part One -- FHL Microfilm Index (alphabetical by
Town)
Latvian (Courland) Revision Lists
Part Two -- FHL Microfilm Listing (Contents by
Film)
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