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Each one answers a question every family search starts with — what this place is called now, what the priest wrote in 1878, how to ask an archive in the language it answers in. They run on a language model, they cost nothing, they ask for no email address, and they keep nothing.
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Type the name as it stands on your ship manifest or gravestone and see which places in Ukraine it most likely means today — the oblast, the older Austrian, Polish and Hungarian spellings, and which archive should hold the parish registers.
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Photograph a page of a parish register and get a transcription and translation line by line — the names, the dates, the abbreviations the priest used, and an honest note where the ink has defeated it.
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Describe who you are looking for and get a letter in Ukrainian, in the form an archive expects, ready to paste into an email — including what to ask for and what not to.
All three are a language model reading what you give it and answering from what it has learned. None of them opens a register, telephones a village council or looks at a map. A confident answer from a machine is still a hypothesis.
That is not a small thing. Most family searches stall at the first step — a name nobody can place on a map, a page nobody can read, an archive nobody knows how to write to. Getting past that step for nothing is worth the half-minute it takes.
But the truth is in the step after it, and that step is physical: a register pulled off a shelf, a churchyard walked, a village clerk asked in person. That is the work we charge for, and it begins with an assessment that costs nothing.
Your text and your photographs are passed to the model and the answer comes back to your screen. We keep no copy, we cannot see what you asked, and there is nothing to sign up for. Close the tab and it is gone.
Send us what the tools gave you. We will say plainly what survives in that village, which archive holds the registers, and what it would cost to find out. The first assessment is free.