In this week's post, I want to share a small piece of advice that I also gave to my course participants. For a family researcher, it is...

I have previously written about searching for homesteads on maps, but this time I want to share my recent experience. In August and...

Is a church congregation the same as a parish? Are a manor and a parish one and the same? How should one understand the administrative...

Many of us have ancestors from the border regions – and our origins may be sought on the Estonian, Belarusian, or Lithuanian side....

Remember the story of Arvīds Pūrs, who was conscripted into the Latvian Legion of the Germany Army and ended up in England after the war?...