At the start
- the name of one ancestor
- the year and village of a birth, wedding or death
- what your family tells about them
How it works
From grandma's name to ancestors from the 1600s
You do not need to visit any archive. One name from you is enough.
- 4 steps for you
- $9 (€8) per ancestor we find
- no call you order in your family tree
Step by step
Four steps for you, the rest is on us
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You: You enter one ancestor. A birth, a wedding or a death is enough.
Day 1 Free sample
We: We send their record from the register, usually the same day, within a week at the latest; other ancestors we found we show locked.
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You: Everything we found beyond the sample you unlock in the app for $25 (€22).
Right away Unlocking
We: We unlock right after payment by card. Then the tree is yours. We also look up your direct ancestors' houses where the records allow.
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You: In your family tree you choose the side of the family and how many ancestors at most, and pay $9 (€8) per ancestor by card.
Any time Search further
We: No quote and no call, we start searching.
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You: Grandma adds dates, memories and photos.
Week 1 Questionnaire
We: We send the family a questionnaire and go through old papers.
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You: Nothing. Along the way you get a report on what we have.
Weeks 1 to 3 Research
We: We read the registers, record by record. A person checks every link.
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You: You invite your relatives.
Within 3 weeks Handover
We: We hand over the tree, the Family Book in PDF and the data. For those we did not find we refund $9 (€8) each.
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You: You write what your family knows differently.
30 days Corrections
We: We correct and add it at no extra charge.
Step 1 is free and commits you to nothing.
What we need from you
A little is enough, but the more, the faster
In the questionnaire
- dates of the living generations
- memories and nicknames
- old photos and obituaries
Documents, if you have them
- birth and marriage certificates
- passports, military papers, ship manifests
- a photo taken with your phone is enough
Certainty for every fact
Every fact comes with its record
With the archive, book and page given, anyone can find the record.
1 The record in the register
2 In plain English
On 3 December 1810 in Horákov, house no. 44, František Hromek was born, son of the quarter farmer Jiří Hromek and Genovefa, née Neužilová.
Source: Moravian Land Archives in Brno, E 67, book no. 1983, fol. 55
❧ documented by a direct record
Sources
How we know it
From the same old books that historians read.
- Parish registers births, marriages and deaths from the 1600s
- Land registers and books of farms who held a house and what he paid for it
- Tax rolls of the 1650s and 1670s farmers around 1650
- Censuses who lived with whom in one house
- Maps from the mid 1800s the village and the house as they looked then
- Family documents and memories birth certificates, photos, what is told in the family
The computer helps us search and read the records. A person checks every fact.
Which archives we search
- Moravian Land Archives in Brno southern and central Moravia, the Highlands
- Land Archives in Opava Silesia, northern Moravia
- State Regional Archives in Prague central Bohemia
- State Regional Archives in Třeboň southern Bohemia
- State Regional Archives in Plzeň (Porta fontium) western Bohemia, the most land registers
- State Regional Archives in Litoměřice northern Bohemia
- State Regional Archives in Zámrsk eastern Bohemia
- Prague City Archives Prague
- FamilySearch Slovakia (to 1895)
The first step is yours
Tell us about one ancestor. We will read their record from the parish register for free.
- We search parish registers from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
- An ancestor born in 1920 or earlier.