Many people find themselves wondering about the history of their family. A genealogical search for ancestors makes it possible to reconnect with earlier generations, to test a few family legends, to become better acquainted with your great-grandparents and to uncover the secret of your own origins.
Genealogy studies individual and family connections founded on common descent and kinship. Research in this field today meets with a lively response in every part of society. After all, belonging to the clergy, the nobility or any other estate does the descendants no harm whatsoever in our day — quite the opposite: it is an honourable adornment to your family tree.
The main stages of a genealogical search for ancestors
- Gathering documentary information. Our specialists will be interested in every document and old photograph you have — birth, death and marriage certificates, passports, identity papers, military service records, school certificates and so on.
- Interviewing relatives. Conversations with living relatives are extremely important to the search for ancestors — they can often provide more information than can be found in old documents.
- Devising a strategy and working with archives. The specialists of the International Genealogical Centre have extensive experience of working successfully with the most varied archival records. This is demanding and painstaking work, built on complex research, IT and vast volumes of data.
- Presenting the results of the research.
What does genealogical research give you besides the chance to trace your ancestors?
- establish the social estate your family came from;
- determine your ethnic origins;
- build a family tree and write a family history book;
- prove particular family relationships, and much more.
Give us a call and we will answer in detail any question you may have about the search for your ancestors.
