Attempting to research Aleksejs Krilovs, latvia

[rebekahm28]

 .   After many years I’ve finally got a high Dna match to someone from Latvia who has the Krilovs name in their near-ancestry.    Unfortunately he doesn’t know much about the family as his grandmother didn’t speak about family, exactly the same as my grandad didn’t. So, we may be 3rd cousins which is the closest I’ve ever got, his great grandfather was Aleksejs Krilovs born 1914, with a brother named Pavels in 1913, if this is all correct.   My grandad was born 1926 if he was  honest about that. I believe my grandads father (Aleksander Krilovs) may have been Aleksejs brother ?    Family search doesn’t throw anything up and I have a subscription to ancestry but not finding anything on there…. Where do I go from here?  Thankyou.

Would also like to suggest anyone interested in Latvian heritage joins the Facebook sites Latvian Genealogy,   And Latvian Dna. 

[TreeSpirit]

There is a fair bit online for Latvia, but without nice convenient country wide indices your first step is to narrow your search parameters  =>

Your contact in Latvia must know more than 2 common first names and their year of birth (and are those years exact or approx?).
Especially: Where were/did these people born/resided/married/died.  If the exact town is not known, then the parish or county.

Also things like:
(exact or otherwise approx) birth/marriage/death dates
Occupations
Other family members e.g. wives
Religion

[rebekahm28]

Ok that’s not possible right now maybe in the future