Genealogy Archives - Baltic Lives

Europe to Australia – The Migrant Ship Anna Salen

On the 25th of October, 1949, my father-in-law and his parents, Žanis and Lore Zekants, arrived as migrants to Australia. […]

The 1810 Riga address book (on the left) is the earliest that I found and the 1930/1931 (on the right)

The subtitle of this remarkable book is ‘Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia’. This

I am excited to let everyone know that I now have a Facebook page for Baltic Lives. I have created

Any historian or genealogist will agree that maps are an essential tool to making sense of research, creating mental images

What do the Cardiff docklands, a boarding house, a declaration of war and international Rugby legend Gus Risman have to

5,327 km from Riga lies the small Siberian village known in Latvian as Lejas Bulāna (Nizhnyaya Bulanka in Russian). This

I honestly don’t know how I could have gone anywhere on this family history journey without the Periodika website. If

This steamer ship started its life in 1911 as a Danish-made vessel christened ‘Libaya’ or ‘Libau’, built for use by

In the winter of 1897, a census was taken across the entire Russian Empire. It was the first and last