Baltic Lives Facebook Page
I am excited to let everyone know that I now have a Facebook page for Baltic Lives. I have created […]
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Finding and Using Latvian Maps
Any historian or genealogist will agree that maps are an essential tool to making sense of research, creating mental images
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Nurmuiža: Manor House, Lutheran Church & Rectory
About 10 km east of the town of Talsi in northwest Latvia is the small historical village of Nurmuiža (located
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1 Sophia St – A Latvian Boarding House in Wales
What do the Cardiff docklands, a boarding house, a declaration of war and international Rugby legend Gus Risman have to
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Lejas Bulāna – Latvian Village in Siberia
5,327 km from Riga lies the small Siberian village known in Latvian as Lejas Bulāna (Nizhnyaya Bulanka in Russian). This
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Periodika – History Through Historical Newspapers
I honestly don’t know how I could have gone anywhere on this family history journey without the Periodika website. If
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Kārlis Zāle – Shine Like a Star!
How to Represent Freedom In 1922, the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation of Latvia, proposed erecting a new
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Olga’s “Party Picture”
This is definitely my favourite of all the old photos my father-in-law has from his father’s family. My husband and
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Birth, Death & Chocolate – 11 Miera Street (Part 2)
History & Style In the first years of the 20th century, architects such as Mikhail Eisenstein created the opulent buildings
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Birth, Death & Chocolate – Miera Street, Riga (Part 1)
The name for this street, ‘Miera iela’ or ‘Peace Street’ in English, goes back to the mid-19th century. But until
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Baltic Germans – Legacy of the Crusades
Founding and Early History More than seven centuries ago, groups of Teutonic knights and warrior monks (known as the Livonian
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SS Baltabor – A Baltic Steamer Ship
This steamer ship started its life in 1911 as a Danish-made vessel christened ‘Libaya’ or ‘Libau’, built for use by
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Murderer Exonerated – The Tragic Death of Andrejs Zekants
The world suddenly stopped. The cold dark winter air was violently sucked from his lungs. Andrejs stumbled but kept on
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A Dangerous Sect – Baptists in Latvia
In the middle of the 19th century, most people in modern-day Latvia were either Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Jewish. These
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The 1897 All-Russia Census
In the winter of 1897, a census was taken across the entire Russian Empire. It was the first and last
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