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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Genealogy
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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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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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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