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If you are interested in finding out more about
your Polish / German / Prussian / Jewish roots in Poland, we can help. From our
base in the west of Poland, an area prior to 1945 part of Germany, we carry out
research into family history, the history of villages and towns all over Poland,
and act as guides to visitors to Poland from outside of the country. Our small
team is fluent in English, German and Polish! The provinces we are most familiar with
are Brandenburg and Neumark (Lubuskie), Posen / Greater Poland
(Wielkopolska), Western Pomerania (Zachodniopomorskie)
and the northern part of Silesia (Dolnoslaskie).
Major cities in this area include: Gorzow (Landsberg), Poznan
(Posen), Szczecin (Stettin),
Schneidemuhl (Pila), Glogau (Glogow), and Zielona
Gora (Grunberg). However, if your interest is in a different
part of Poland we can probably help. For example, the cities and villages around
Wroclaw (Breslau) and Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) although a
little more distant from here, are places we often travel to either photograph or trace ancestry for
people looking for their roots.
Some of the services we offer
related to genealogy and genealogical research:
Research: discover
more about your roots and find living relatives in Poland
We offer a number of research services. These can range from a
fairly straightforward search of Polish records like phone directories and
electoral registers to determine whether you still have distant relatives living
in the place your family once lived to a visit to your ancestor's
towns and villages by one of our researchers to examine church records
and archives, interview surviving family members, take photographs or make a
video film.
Travel: Private
Guided
Tours
If you're planning a visit to Poland we can help with the
planning, help to arrange suitable accommodation, act as translator and
interpreter while you are in Poland, drive you to any location in
Poland, and show you around the region you are interested in. More about our private
guided tours of Poland.
Translation: Polish, English, German
We are available to translate documents and letters to and from
your family or officials in Poland, either in Polish, English or German. More
about our translation
service.
Photography: Still or Video
If you want to see what your ancestral village or town looked
like, but can't go to Europe, we can help. We can provide you with a set of pictures of the houses,
street, village, town or city, where your ancestors once lived. Being on the ground, we can travel to any location and
photograph ancestral houses, gravestones, cemeteries,
churches, farms, palaces, historic monuments, streets or anything else, and take
photographs for you. After visiting a
particular location for you we will then email or post you the results of our
trip. These
could include digital photographs on cd, printed photographs, audio recordings, and video
films. Because we use professional digital cameras and
handycams for this work, the finished photographs and film are of a high quality.
Prices start at just $ 60 for a simple photographic record of a village, town or
city in the west of Poland on CD. Samples of our photographic work can be seen on our
sister site Photographs of Poland. Whilst in the village
or town we can also check local records, and
even interview locals to find out about the location of old houses, farms, etc.,
or find out about who lived in a particular house before them. We can also check
on whether any distant relatives still remain in the area. See
how and where your ancestors lived before they emigrated without the
expense of a trip to Poland!
Please contact
us for a genealogy quotation
or price list for research into your family roots here in Poland,
photographic, Polish translation, escorted geneaology tours and/or guide services. Our charges are very
reasonable.
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