Sigrid
Maldonado's Home Page
Of
Estonian / Baltic Interest
Links to other web sites are located towards the end of
this page. Either to sites that are genealogical in nature or to those
that are about "things Estonian or Latvian".
You can also access other pages of this Web Site from links below.
On those other pages you can discover ways to find friends and relatives in
Estonia, how to get information about "family happenings" while your
grandparents / parents were in DP Camps after WWII, what happened to those who
disappeared during Soviet times, etc.
Try the links to other web sites given in most of our pages! (I hope the
different addresses have not changed.)
Here we provide a "Search Box"
to help you find with ease what you are looking for in this Web Site. It will
search through all our pages. The results will be given in short form. If you
enter a search from there it will give you more detailed answers.
Use "Help" for advanced searches.
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What is this site
about?
For now it is only
about ethnic Estonian, also Latvian, genealogy and
family history and also the history of that Baltic area as it relates to
documenting the lives of ancestors from/in that part of Europe.
Even if you
personally are not interested in family history nor your Estonian background,
some of your relatives or friends might be. Please, tell them of this site and
what it is about. Your mother, an uncle or a family friend might be glad you
told them this site exists and how to reach it. It might even be a good subject
of conversation during family get-togethers or Estonian gatherings.
Why is this Web
Site being published?
The intention is to
facilitate access for the general public and in particular for those of Baltic
extraction to the fruits of her own experience and reflections on the subject
matter of ethnic Estonian (Latvian) history and
family history and also to provide links to other Web Sites of genealogical
and/or of general Estonian / Baltic interest.
To have any chance
of finding the records of our ancestors we always have to attempt to correlate
the genealogical searches to the geographical, historical and sociopolitical
environment in which those foreparents lived their lives. This site can help you
to do just that.
To help ethnic Estonians (Latvians)
in that endeavor Sigrid Maldonado wrote a book titled
"ESTONIAN Experience and Roots".
It is a helping hand to those wanting to research
their ethnic Estonian (Latvian) roots. With this
Site she also tries to sell her book, which is readily available.
© The book was written as a labor of love to the memory
of her deceased father, an ethnic Estonian. He was Nikolai Johann Amber(g),
born 1895 in Rakvere, Virumaa, Estonia, Russian Empire. Lived in Germany,
Austria, Argentina & USA. He died 1982 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
Hopefully you will
be not just chatting about this book during family or other Estonian
gatherings. But, please, make print-outs of the Ordering Form (link below) and
give it to those who might be interested and do not have a computer. If they do
not want to order right away they could write to us and ask for more
information about this book. Printed fliers are available. You can leave
messages in the Guest Book (link below) under "Private Entry" if you
do not want others to read your request for fliers to be sent to someone you
just thought might be interested.
Links to the 7 pages in this Web Site:
(To view and read
them, please click on the underlined words or symbols in blue, below.)
ESTONIAN Experience and Roots:
The page contains a description of this
book, to whom it will be of help and interest and a few words about family
historians in general.
Estonian
Experience and Roots' abbreviated Table of Contents. Here you discover what it is all about. The chapters about history
are of interest not only to family historians.
"Reviews
& Opinions" about this book can
be reached by clicking on & .
Then there is the Ordering Form for the book. Please, make a print-out, fill it out
and send it, with payment, via snail-mail / Air Mail or surface mail. (The
mailing address is on the form.)
Sigrid Maldonado's biography:
from Estonia, through Austria and Argentina and finally to USA.
In the next page
Mrs. Maldonado mentions the few ethnic Estonian Family Histories
and / or Family Charts created by other
authors that have come to her
attention. (More are welcome. If by snail = traditional mail: the address is in
the Ordering Form. Or leave a message in the Guest Book.) In this page we have
recently included links to genealogical Web Sites that have been created
in Estonia itself. One of them provides suggestions on how to find
relatives in Estonia.
This page also gives ideas of how to get information about your family while
they lived
in Refugee Camps after WWII.
You can find a link to a site with a list of those who disappeared
during Soviet times.
If you suspect that
one of your ancestors could have gone to the City School in Rakvere (= Wesenberg), Estonia, you might find him/her
in our page listing the graduates of that School. Just click on Rakschl to reach our new page: "City Elementary
School # III..." = "Linna III. Algkool". Or you might find
your ancestor there without having suspected any link to this town.
Links to other Web Sites of interest:
To genealogical
sites:
See also our page
"Family Histories &/or Family Charts" under other authors
(above) for more links. The genealogical web sites in Estonia are there.
Federation
of East European Family History Societies - once you get there click on "Website Index", then write "Baltic Cross-Index"
and you will find some things of interest
(FEEFHS).
There also are other areas of interest for Estonians in this Web Site.
If your Estonian
foreparents came to USA several generations ago you should find out how to
document your ancestors that lived in this country before you try to do
research in Estonia itself. I suggest you visit the "National Genealogical
Society" (NGS) in Arlington, Virginia, USA, by going to their Web
Site in search of topics related to genealogy in USA.
If you want to
research your multiethnic family's history - all your ancestral lines, besides
your ethnic Estonian (Latvian) foreparents - Cyndi's List
of Genealogy Sites on the Internet will be
of interest to you. This will give you an idea of what kinds of archival
records researchers of family history are using in USA, Canada, etc. This Web
Site, called Cyndi's
List, is Ms. Cyndi Howells' creation,
who is located here in USA.
The equivalent in
Europe to "Cyndi's List" is a genealogical Site called Annuaire Généalogique Internet
in French (= AGI) or Internet Genealogical Directory in English. 
The
Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies (FSGS) has a Web Site where
you might find things of interest since many Estonians went to Sweden before
crossing the oceans to other countries.
The
Genealogical Society of GreaterStockholm
= "StorStockholms Genealogiska Förening" has formed an Estonian
group. The person organizing this is Mr. Gustaf von Gertten. (See our page
called "Reviews & Opinions".)
They have a web site at: http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-85007/ee-gruppest.htm
To Estonian /
Baltic sites of general interest:
The Estonian weekly
newspaper published in New York City "Vaba Eesti Sõna" has created a web site which helps us to access many
Estonian government sites, Estonian market & commerce information, travel
aids, maps of Estonia, etc. They all appear to be in Estonian and in English. (VES)
University of Texas
at Austin Russian
and Eastern European Network Information Center which includes also the Asian part of the former
Soviet Union (REENIC)
To visit the Web
site of the Institute of Baltic Studies
click on its name.
Churches in
Latvia are starting their own Web
Sites. They are being developed. Few things are in English, most is in the
Latvian language. If these sites themselves will have a genealogical value in
the future is to be seen. At least you can get mailing addresses (snail mail or
e-mail) from these sites. Click on the following links to reach lutheran or catholic
church sites in Latvia.
Since 08 March 1998, you are visitor number
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If you live in a country other that the USA and the place in the Guest Book for
your residence is not adaptable to your case, please leave this optional
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English, Spanish and German are understood by Sigrid
Maldonado and she gladly
communicates in any one of them.
We invite visitors to this Site to tell us how they
feel about our Web Site. We want
to make it as "visitor friendly" and as informative as possible.
If you have read Sigrid Maldonado's book, please also
make comments about the book
in this Guest Book. Preferably as an "open or public entry" so that
others can read what you
think of it, if it was informative, helpful, etc. Also state if you are a
novice to genealogy or have already done some research, etc..
Your comments in the Guest Book are very
important so that others can read your
opinions of these works by Sigrid Maldonado.
The authors of these comments should be clearly identified.
The "unusual" Guest Book icons were the
creation of AT&T ;-)
This Web Site will be updated again
Last update was on 23 January 2000.
It was done again on 31 January 2004.
