Heritage Research Virtual Tour Virtual Tours Of Western Ukraine

Interested in finding out about your Ancestral Heritage but physical travel is currently not an option?

Well, you’ve come to the right place.  We offer personally-designed Virtual Tours of Western Ukraine focusing on historic ancestral sites, uniquely crafted for your personal needs and preferences; Virtual Tours of Western Ukraine that both you and your family can enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home.

What does a Virtual Tour Include?

Our Virtual Tours of Western Ukraine typically feature – among other services – a visual recording of your ancestral village, including photographs and video clips – recorded by our staff of professional photographers and visual artists – of historical town sites such as, churches & synagogues, cemeteries, legendary structures, and in some cases even ancestral residences including interviews with living relatives; plus help “finding your roots” by arranging for genealogical research for your ancestral relatives in the State Archives.

How does a Virtual Tour work?

A large component of determining the relative success of all Virtual Tours depends on the client, especially any pertinent information that can be gleaned from extended family archival records such as birth and marriage certificates, immigration transcripts, passport applications, military service files, tax records, plus the memoirs or oral history gathered from family members.

Background information of this sort is essential for helping our staff to pin-point not only a particular name but a place and a time span to focus our efforts upon. Once we have this information, we can begin our archival research; determine the location(s) that we will be documenting; arrange for any appropriate meetings; travel to the site and proceed to record any relevant events; then transmit the results of our Virtual Tour of Western Ukraine to the client via digital download or the Post.

Where can I find more resources for exploring my ancestral background?

First check out our Ancestry and Heritage Tour offering where we’ve provided links to some of Ukraine’s regional archive centers. Please note that you or your representative will need to be fluent in Ukrainian – so our recommendation is that you let us handle any communications on your behalf.

Next depending upon your country of origin, we recommend you contact the appropriate agency that controls immigration records or contract with a genealogical research service in order to compile a list of possible relatives.  Ancestry.com; 23andMe; MyHeritage.com; FamilySearch.org;  Geni.com; JewishGen; Gesher Galicia; Ukrainian Genealogical Forum; Library and Archives Canada; National Library of Australia; WorldGenWeb – are a few suggestions among others.

If you’re from the United States, the USA.gov’s Genealogy and Family History website;  the National Archives; the GenealogyBank; the U.S. Census Bureau; and Ellis Island; are some options for your project.

Plus you might want to head over to Vera Miler‘s Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family website for her recent post on tips for Researching Ukrainian Ancestors.