About us
Our small team is engaged in the creation of family trees. Most of our customers are descendants of ”white emigrants” who left Russia during the Russian Revolution and Civil War (War of White and Red (Soviet) Armies of 1917-1923), as well as Czechs who fled from socialism and fascism and sometimes people who emigrated in the end of twentieth century. The subject of our research is Russian, Ukrainian and Czech archives, lists of tsarist officers, church metrics , Soviet Union archives and many other documents.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of former military men of the Imperial Army of the Russian Empire, Cossacks, Ukrainians – Petliurists, Makhnovists and their families left their country for America, Canada, Europe and other countries. This was the “First Wave” or the “White Wave” of emigration. The “Second Wave” of emigration to America and Canada was from Europe during and after World War II, and the “Third Wave” took place in the second part of the twentieth century
We can draw up your family tree for you, find documents confirming your rights to a particular property, find living relatives or find and translate historical information that may interest you. Compiling pedigrees is always an individual thing. Sometimes, if a family was living for many hundreds of years in the same city or village, it immediately turns out to find ancestors, for example, until the 16th – 17th centuries. Sometimes every antecedent generation becomes a whole detective story that takes a lot of time to investigate and a whole lot of money for research.
My way back to history
I myself had been interested in my origins since childhood. This interest was instilled in me by my grandmother, who, before her death, formed her family tree from memory. Back then we knew not that much about our family, but still much more than many others. Gradually looking for information in the Internet and various archives, it turned out to find our origin, sometimes even before the 16th century. It turned out that my ancestors were not only Russians, Georgians and Bulgarians, as I thought when I was small, but also Greeks, Danes, Irish, Poles, Circassians, Finns, French and representatives of small indigenous nations of Russia.
With the help of the recently published archives of the First and Second World Wars, it turned out to restore the combat path of my grandfather, great-grandfather and many more relatives, to find out for what they were awarded. I have learned in detail about everything they tried not to talk about and not to remember.
Something unimaginable began to appear in my lineage when I had started to study the Russian imperial archives of the 19th, 18th, 17th and 16th centuries. It turned out that one of the ancestors was a sculptor who fled from the French Revolution, Someone was an officer who participated in the palace coup of the 18th century, someone was a serf peasant, someone was a Greek who received land from the Queen for participating in war with the Turks. Dozens of names of cities and villages, dozens of wars and battles appeared in my imagination.
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I hope I can get help to find out about my grandfather Sergei stanichevsky