Resources

Whether you're looking to connect to a local or nearby Latvian community or explore your heritage and ancestry beyond our own website, we've collected useful links to hopefully assist you on your journey of exploration.

• arhivi.gov.lv/en↗ — home page of the Latvian National Archives; Inese Kalniņa is manager of the Archive of the Diaspora
• archiv.org.lv/astra/↗ — "The Case Against Gunārs Astra", a virtual exhibition documenting the USSR's legal proceedings against Gunārs Astra↗; Astra was a human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested in 1961, sentenced for 15 years, then arrested again in 1983, remaining imprisoned until shortly before his death
• archiv.org.lv/hercogiste/↗ — virtual version of the traveling exhibition: "From Duke Gotthard Till Duke James" in recognition of the 450th anniversary of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, in Latvian and English; Peters' ancestors were fishmongers to the Dukes of Courland
• commission.europa.eu/index_en↗  — European Commission
• https://earchive-estlatrus.eu/ — a cooperative online historical archive, a project of the European Union's Estonia-Latvia-Russia Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) Programme, terminated in 2022 owing to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you can browse an archival copy from 2021↗.
• www.ra.ee/en/film-photo-audio/film/↗ — Estonian Fim Archives
• loc.gov/folklife/guides/Latvia.html↗ — Latvia Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress; Ann Hoog presented images of artifacts from AFC 1979/001: Miervaldis Jansevics 1975 West Coast Latvian Song Festival Collection and played a cassette(!) tape recording of a song performed at the festival
• www.arhivi.gov.lv/en/department/latvian-state-historical-archive↗ — Latvian State Historical Archive
• raduraksti.arhivi.lv/↗ — a project of the Latvian National History Archive digitizing documents for genealogy research, currently nearing 6 million images and 2 terabytes of data
• www.ra.ee/en/↗ —  National Archives of Estonia
• www.rgm.lv/?lang=en↗ — the Rīga Ghetto Museum online, a moving interactive multimedia experience of life, death, and survival in the Rīga Ghetto, Cory MacCloud, project manager and leader
• tautasgramatuplaukts.lv↗ — "The People's Bookshelf", a project enabling anyone to donate to the Latvian National Library a book of unique significance to one's self, writing a dedication or story on the title page linked to the book; the contributions of tens of thousands will fill a glass wall reaching five stories tall in the new library building, and all books will be accessible to readers
• zudusilatvija.lv↗ — "Lost Latvia", an archival photography project of the Latvian National Library, Ginta Zalcmane, project manager

The Latvian National History Archive also now holds the Edgars Dunsdorfs archive. Dunsdorfs was one of the pre-eminent and most prolific of Latvian historians—and with whom Peters himself had the privilege to correspond.