Riga Address Books: Locating Your Ancestors in Riga
The 1810 Riga address book (on the left) is the earliest that I found and the 1930/1931 (on the right) […]
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Genealogy
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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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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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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