Understand your family’s past
Who they were, where they lived, what they did and whom they married, told in plain English from the records that survive.
Documented family history research
Your family story. Backed by records.
Discover what historical records can reveal about your family, brought together in a personal report you can understand, share and keep.
Tell us what you know. We check the available online records and agree the scope and price before you pay.
Every fact sourcedScope and price agreed in writingOne-time project
Pages from a historical case-study report. Delivered as printable PDFs.
Why families come to us
Three reasons people start.
Create a meaningful family gift
A researched story and a keepsake page for a birthday, an anniversary or a reunion, delivered as files you can print.
Preserve a story for the next generation
Names, dates and places written down with their sources, so what you learn isn’t lost again.
What you receive
A report to understand. A keepsake to share.
The research report
- 1The case at a glanceThe question, the answer in one paragraph, and how sure we are of each conclusion.
- 2The story, in short chaptersPlaces and dates in plain English. Nothing invented to fill gaps.
- 3Timeline and family chartA visual timeline and a chart of the relationships the records support.
- 4How the records connectKey records transcribed and explained: what they show and their limits.
- 5Evidence at a glanceEvery fact set against every source in one grid.
- 6Sources, conflicts and next stepsEvery source linked, every conflict shown, every search logged.
The Family Heritage Keepsake
A printable page made only from facts supported in your report: names, documented moments, places and a short written story, with a portrait when one survives. Color and black & white, US Letter and A4. You can add a dedication. A commemorative page, not an official certificate.
Details from a historical case-study report. The contents of yours depend on your package and on the records that survive.
Inside a report
See how a family story comes together.
Read a finished report from cover to sources: a Baltimore bank clerk born in 1895, traced through census returns, his draft card, his headstone and the history of his regiment.
A historical case study showing our research and presentation approach. Your project is shaped around your family and the records available.
Read the complete report
Download the PDF
The PDF has selectable text and clickable source links. No email needed.
Our method
How our team works on every case.
- Identify the personWe define exactly who we are looking for from what you know.
- Compare before linkingNames, dates, places and relatives must agree before two records are joined. In the report you can see how the five-year-old of one census becomes the man on a draft card.
- Separate proof from inferenceEach finding is labeled supported, probable, hypothesis or unresolved. Online trees are leads, not evidence.
- Report dead ends tooYou see what we searched and found nothing, so nobody repeats it. Every report is reviewed by our team before release.
How it works
Three steps, and you pay only after the plan.
1
Free check
- Tell us about a deceased ancestor and your question.
- We check whether online records cover that person, time and place.
- If they don’t, we say so and stop. No charge.
2
Plan and payment
- You receive a written plan with a fixed price.
- You pay only if you approve it. No subscription.
3
Research and delivery
- Research within the agreed scope; questions by email.
- Report and keepsake delivered as PDFs.
- One round of questions where your package includes it.
Your written plan states
- Who we are researching
- The question we will answer
- Which online sources we will search
- What is not included
- What you receive
- Timing and fixed price
- How the guarantee applies
- Whether an index-only record counts
Packages
One question, one life, or one family line.
Prices in US dollars, one-time, wherever you live. We confirm which package fits before you pay. What we find depends on the records that survive; no number of generations is promised.
Compare everything included
Our guarantee
New record or your money back.
If our paid research finds no new historical record that we can reasonably attribute to the ancestor agreed in your research plan, we refund your project fee in full. How refunds work.
Counts as a new record
- A census, birth, marriage, death, military, immigration or naturalization record you didn’t have
- Attributable to your agreed ancestor, with the reasoning shown in your report
Doesn’t count
- A record you already sent us
- A record already shown in your free check
- A duplicate, or a person who only shares the name
- Family trees made by others
Your plan states before payment whether an index-only record counts. The guarantee doesn’t promise a particular answer, town, ship or number of generations.
Questions
Before you start
Free research review
Tell us who you’re looking for.
We check whether suitable online records exist for your ancestor and reply by email. If your case fits, you receive a written plan with a fixed price.
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