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Aleksandrs Feigmanis

Well-known scholar based in Riga, Latvia helping you research your family history in the Baltic Region

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Email: aleksgen@balticgen.com
Phone: +371-26416972

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Researches in: Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Sweden
Based in: Latvia
Languages: LV · RU · LT · Polish · German · YI · ET · Swedish · HE · French
Time periods: 1941-1945

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About

Historian and researcher specializing in Latvian family history with 25 years of archival research experience. Offers genealogical research, document translation, heritage tours, and estate probate services across the Baltic states.

Aleksandrs Feigmanis is a historian, researcher, and contributing editor on Latvian family history based in Riga, Latvia. With 25 years of archival research experience, he holds a doctorate in theology and a master's degree in history from Latvian University. His expertise spans genealogical research for Jewish and non-Jewish ancestry across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, Poland, and Germany. Services include vital records research, document translation, cemetery headstone photography, heritage tourism guiding, and estate probate services. He is fluent in multiple languages and offers guided heritage tours connecting clients to their ancestral homelands.

Specialties

Latvian family history
Jewish genealogy
Baltic genealogy
cemetery records
vital records
document translation
heritage tourism
Holocaust history
estate probate

Additional credentials

Doctor of theology; Master's degree in history from Latvian University; 25 years archival research experience; contributing editor on Latvian family history; author of 'Latvian Jewish Intelligentsia - Victims of the Holocaust, a Biographical Dictionary'

Riga, Latvia

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