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Start with a question. End at the church door.

From a written answer about which records survive to a journey that ends at the gate your family left. Every price is below, and most of the work is priced by the day — a day in the archive, a day in the village — because that is how it is actually done. You get the exact figure for your case in writing, after a free assessment.

Service 01

up to two weeks

Records Check

$140

Before anyone travels or opens a book: do the registers for your village and your years still exist, and where are they?

  • The village confirmed, with its historical and present-day names
  • Its parish in both rites — Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic — and the Jewish community where there was one
  • Which registers survive for the years you need, and which archive holds them
  • What was destroyed or lost, and when
  • The next step, if there is one, with its price in writing

Already holding a document nobody in the family can read — a parish extract, a letter, a passport page? Reading it is $45 per document: transcribed, translated, and what it tells you. Four documents of one family: $140.

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Service 02

one full day

A Day in Your Village

$290

A whole working day on the ground in your family's village, recorded so that you see everything that was seen.

  • Every headstone with your family's names photographed and read, with the GPS of each grave
  • Both cemeteries where a village has two, at no extra cost
  • The house or the place where it stood, and the street walked end to end on camera
  • The church, the village council, and neighbours asked what they remember
  • A written report and every original file; half back if nothing of your family is found

$490 records the entire cemetery instead: every standing stone photographed, all readable inscriptions in a table, and a numbered plan with the GPS of each stone.

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Service 03

one full day

A Day in the Archive

$290

A working day in the reading room on your family's files — the pages photographed, the entries read.

  • The files ordered in advance, so the day is spent reading
  • Every page relevant to your family photographed, the entries cropped and legible
  • Each entry naming your family transcribed and translated
  • A written account of what was checked and what it showed

Larger research — several family lines, several archives, four to six generations — is several such days, typically from $900, with the price fixed in writing after the records check. Archive copying fees are not included and are named before anything is paid.

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Service 04

one full day, then the film

If You Cannot Travel

$290 the day

The day in your village, done for you and brought back — for everyone who will never board that plane.

  • Everything in the day in your village: the graves, the house, the street, the people
  • Recorded so that you can walk through it yourself from your own chair
  • An edited film of the day with narration, if you wish — quoted in writing before the day

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Service 05

ongoing, yearly

Grave Care

$240 per year

An ocean away, a grave grows over in a decade. We keep it as if the family had never left.

  • Spring and autumn tidying of the grave and headstone
  • Flowers on Provody — the remembrance Sunday after Easter
  • A photo report to your inbox after every visit
  • Repairs and restoration quoted separately, only if you ask

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Service 06

planned months ahead

The Journey Home

priced for your family

Where the rest of the ladder leads: you come, and stand in the village your family left. Built around one village and one family, not sold as a package.

  • The research done first — the village confirmed, the records read, the grave found
  • A day-by-day plan around your village, with a spare day for the border
  • The village days with the person who did the research, with interpreting at every conversation
  • Photographs and film of the village days
  • Help with the border, a driver, hotels and war-risk insurance — arranged with you, each part priced openly

The price is set in writing once the research is done and the days are planned; each part is paid before it is booked. Planning starts four to six months ahead.

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How pricing and payment work

You write to us, and we answer in writing within two business days: what can realistically be found, and what it would cost. If you go ahead, you receive an email naming exactly what will be done, and the invoice with the payment details on it. Work starts once the payment arrives. If a day in your village finds nothing of your family, half the fee comes back; a day in the archive always ends with a full written account of what was checked.

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See what a report looks like

A real report from two days in the archive, exactly as the client received it. Only the family's names, the client, house addresses and archive references are hidden.

Open the sample report (PDF)

Not everyone left

If nobody in your family emigrated

Two million people were taken from Ukraine to work in Germany between 1941 and 1944, and much of the diaspora descends from those who never went back. That search runs through different archives from the ones described above — and the page about it says which, and what you can look up yourself for nothing.

The other road: taken as forced labour

Five different searches

Which of these is your family's story?

Where the records are depends on what happened to the family, not on where the village is today. Each of these pages says which archives your case runs through, and which part of it costs nothing.

  • Which archive holds your village

    Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Warsaw: it depends on the year, the rite and the eparchy — not on today's region.

  • A Lemko family

    The village is in Poland and so are the old registers. The family that stayed was moved to Ukraine in 1944–46 — into the regions where we work.

  • A Polish family from the Kresy

    Lwów, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wołyń: what is in Warsaw, what stayed here, and what is left of the village.

  • A Jewish family from Galicia, Volhynia or Podolia

    Two empires and two record systems. Which books are in Warsaw, which survive in Ukraine, and what to do where the community's registers are gone.

Start with a request. It costs nothing.

You write us the family name and whatever you know. We write back honestly: what can be found, what cannot, and what it would cost in your case. No payment, no obligation.

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