Discover Your Roots and Ancestry in Ukraine and Poland
Lviv Ecotour can help you reconnect to your ancestry in Ukraine and Poland
Planning to visit Ukraine? Lviv Ecotour can organize Genealogical Tours by transporting, accompanying and interpreting for individuals who wish to come to Ukraine to reunite with their family or for a genealogical research of their family ancestry.
Looking for your roots? I carry out On Location Genealogical Research in your ancestral town to look for family, houses and structures, family headstones at graveyards and other places of ancestral interest in the Ukrainian or Polish part of Galicia or Volhynia, or in Bukovina.
Trying to find old family records? Lviv Ecotour can look for records at Ukraine’s state archives. I can narrow research to specific archives, request, obtain and research archival records.
Lviv Ecotour offers the following services:
GENEALOGICAL TOURS IN UKRAINE:
assistance with visiting ancestral towns for genealogical research, to discover family roots and places, or to reunite with family in Ukraine.
ON LOCATION GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH:
finding long lost relatives, and ancestry research in towns and villages in Ukraine. Filming and photography of ancestral sites in Ukraine to aid in family history research.
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH:
research at archives in Ukraine to find requested archival records that may be useful in building a family tree or establishing a family connection.
GENEALOGICAL TOURS IN UKRAINE:
Visit Ancestral Towns for Genealogy Research, Discover Family Roots, and Reunite with Family in Ukraine
I offer help to people willing to come to Ukraine to visit family, ancestral towns, or carry out genealogical research.
Lviv Ecotour can arrange to transfer and accompany an individual, a family or a group on a genealogical tour or family reunion trip to Ukraine and Poland.
Our genealogical tours provide those people who live outside of Ukraine with an opportunity to visit places where their ancestors lived, meet living relatives or look for relatives’ graves at cemeteries, speak to local people in ancestral villages in Ukraine. The tours may include visits to state archives and civil registry offices to look for old family records. Tour participants will breath the same air and see the same sky as their relatives did years ago.
Lviv Ecotour can help in developing an itinerary for a genealogical tour or will follow your plan. On such family history tours you may be able to meet family in Ukraine, look for places of worship, family graves, locate family homes and other places of ancestral history in the areas of Galicia, Bukovina, and Volhynia.
We provide a knowledgeable English speaking guide and driver on your tour to Ukraine to help in communication with relatives, local people and sources of family information, such as archives, local government, church priests and rabbis.
The car, interpreter, guidance, and general assistance are included in the tour. I speak English, Ukrainian and Polish languages.
Each tour is individual and depends on your interests and location of your ancestral town. I can help with finding hotel accommodation for trips lasting over several days. The tours also offer an opportunity to visit historic sites and tourist attractions in the area.
ON LOCATION GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH:
Find Long-Lost Relatives and Research Ancestry in Towns and Villages in Ukraine
Lviv Ecotour can offer to visit any location in Western Ukraine to conduct specific genealogical research for you.
This could include inquiring about family and relatives in Western Ukraine, exploring your old family towns to see if any particular houses, structures or landmarks still exist, or looking for family headstones at graveyards in Ukraine. I can send you photos of your places of family interest and research for old records.
Lviv Ecotour can help in researching your ancestry and trying to find living relatives in your old family village or town in Ukraine.
I can look for information and take present-day images from your Jewish, Polish or Ukrainian ancestral town or village in today’s Western Ukraine or South-Eastern Poland.
At your request, we will prepare a comprehensive report detailing and summarizing the research we have carried out on your behalf. The report may include copies of the records, photos and videos from your ancestral town, and contact information for living family members we have located.
Lviv Ecotour can try to find your long-lost family relations in Ukraine who have been separated through emigration, wars or deportations. This includes sending you family photos, information and contacts for your direct communication.
I can assist in planning your visit and itinerary in Lviv, Galicia, Bukovina, and Volhynia – in the land of your Jewish, Polish or Ukrainian ancestors.
For more details about our genealogical research please read our Genealogy FAQ section.
FAMILY-HISTORY RESEARCH:
Archival Research in Ukraine
Lviv Ecotour will search for metrical records of births, marriages and deaths, school records, voters’ and tax payers’ lists, church records, old phone directories and other archival documents that may illuminate your family history. We typically conduct research in Western Ukrainian archives such as those in Lviv, or may arrange research at the archives of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Lutsk and Uzhhorod. Research at Ukraine’s Civil Registry Offices that house more recent vital records can also be pre-arranged for the time of your visit.
Searching for archival records in Ukraine can be a lengthy, complex, and demanding process that typically includes placing a request for specific documents, obtaining material after a waiting period, and searching through voluminous records handwritten in old Slavonic, Polish or Latin. We are familiar with the archival procedures in Ukraine and have developed effective ways to meet the challenges posed by archival bureaucratic procedures, multiple languages, archaic handwriting, and long delays in obtaining responses to requests for records.
If you wish to visit Ukraine to conduct your own genealogical research, we offer assistance and support as interpreters, guides and sources of local knowledge.
