Family History Research

Family History Research takes in Genealogy Research.  It tries to fill in the white spaces among the basic genealogical data.  Its aim is to find out the locations and periods in which the ancestors lived, and only then can history can come alive.  As the main sources for searching an ancestor's life and resident area, available informations are included:  land records, chronicle books, orphans books, town council books, suzerain estate records, tax records, marriage articles, testaments, military records, corporation books, school reports, cadastral maps, designating maps, photographs, censuses etc.  It is necessary to put to use materials of libraries, museums and various historical books and magazines.  All found materials would help to tell life story about ancestor's family.  Of course this work is very difficult, and never ends, because it is possible to find something new even after a search appears to have been completed.  The reason is, many sources are still not processed, and the historic knowledge progresses.

To complete a successful Family Research, it is important to do a field research.  This involves visiting and exploring the resident area.  It may help to add dimension to visualize your ancestry knowledge.  It is also very emotional to visit places where the ancestors lived, walked, worked, and died.  A lot of old buildings are still standing such as churches, parsonages, schools, factories, old town or village houses.  Sometimes there is  the only a tomb in the cemetery to keep a memory.

The great triumph is to find relatives still living.  They can provide fantastic information on the past as well as on the present.  Their stories can be an active complement of descriptions of what once happened.

If you are interested in our assistance in researching the Czech Republic or the Slovak Republic areas, please contact us.