Родовід АрхівWhere to start, and what your family tree costs
You can order Family or Heritage right away. The search comes first and is included in the price. If it finds no readable books for your parish, the order costs you nothing, and the search report stays with you. Prefer to start with the search alone? It is €19.
Free check · €0
Give us a surname and a village, or just the oblast if that is all you know: we will reply by email whether the parish books survive, or how to find the village.
The search
€19 ≈ UAH 970 at the NBU rate, payment in euro
Five days after the questionnaire you will know whether your family can be found in the surviving books, which files to read and what the reading will cost. The search gives no names yet: the reading does, and you know its price before you pay.
- Archive, fond, opys and sprava (collection, inventory, file), and years.
- What of it is online, with links.
- Have a tree already? Send a GEDCOM file, and we continue from it.
- The €19 counts in full toward any work that follows: One Surname, Family or Heritage.
- Can be given as a gift.
The questionnaire opens right after payment; the report comes five days after you send it.
After the search you can have one surname read for €130: the books it named for your father's or your mother's side, with every entry found. Order Family within 30 days of that report and the €19 and €130 count toward it in full.
Family
€490 ≈ UAH 25,100 at the NBU rate
- Both sides of the family: your father’s and your mother’s.
- Record extracts with archive references, and a readable transcription of each.
- Requests to archives where the books are not digitized.
- A mark next to every fact: fact, family testimony or version.
- Stories of the people, built from the facts, and family photos next to them.
- A private family website with a password, access for your family. An offline copy and a GEDCOM file.
- In Ukrainian and English.
- The scope is fixed after the search: a named list of books and parishes, 4–6 weeks.
- If you already paid for the search separately, €471 to pay.
At first €490 is only held on your card. We charge it when the search names files you can read for at least one line of the family; otherwise you pay nothing. Terms.
Heritage
from €990 ≈ from UAH 50,600 at the NBU rate
Everything in Family, and more than the main research.
- Agreed extra depth: earlier periods and additional sources, where they survive.
- Side branches of your choice.
- Requests to archives where the books are not digitized.
- A separate stage after delivery: we check new information the family recalls.
- If you already paid for the search separately, €971 to pay. €990 is the starting price. Any scope beyond it is named by email before that part of the work begins.
At first €990 is only held on your card. We charge it when the search names files you can read for at least one line of the family; otherwise you pay nothing. If the search recommends only Family, we charge €490 and release the rest. Terms.
Already decided to build your tree? Order Family: we only hold the amount on your card, and if there are no books, the search is free. Prefer to see what survives first? Start with the search for €19.
The scope: as many generations as the books of your parish allow; what is found comes with a reference for every fact. We estimate how far the sources allow during the search.
* If official requests to archives are needed, the term can extend: the law gives an archive 30 days to reply, and sometimes we wait longer. We pay for the requests: up to two for Family, up to four for Heritage. The search works only with sources that are online.
Smaller jobs happen too, for example one file, or checking an existing index against the scan. Its price is named in the search report.
One record (a single baptism or marriage): €40 once the search has located its book.
The search can be given as a gift: you pay the €19, and print the gift card separately.
Find your ancestors’ village · €390
Not sure which village your family came from? We identify your ancestors’ village, parish and church from the surname, the oblast and what the family remembers. Full refund if the village cannot be identified or no register for your ancestors’ years is located.
For the Karta Polaka: we check whether your grandparent or great-grandparent is recorded as a Pole · EUR 59
A separate product, the Polish trace, a report in 7 days. If we find no such record, a full refund of EUR 59. Not part of the tiers above. The page is in Ukrainian and Russian.
Special services: separate searches next to the tree tariffs. All services
3 answers the search gives, and when the money is returned
An index already exists
An index is an alphabetical list of names made for the book, like the index at the back of a volume. It holds no ready-made tree. Through it we find entries faster, check each against the page of the book, and read on into the years and books it does not cover.
The books can be read
There is no index, but scans exist. We read the books page by page. We name the files, the tier and the start date. The search report is yours to keep whether or not you continue; if you order Family or Heritage, the €19 counts in full. If you ordered them right away, the search is already included in the price.
The books are only in the archive
We return the €19 only when the catalog shows no book of your parish for the years 1850–1917. If the books survive but are not scanned, that is not grounds for a return: we offer a paid order for copies from the archive, and the €19 is counted toward its price. The list of archives and files stays with you. If you ordered Family or Heritage right away, we release the hold in this case, and the report is free.
Other cases
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The search has not started yet
You can cancel with one email, and we return the €19 in full. Ordered Family or Heritage? We release the hold or refund the charged amount in full.
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The books have been read, and the surname is not in them
This is a paid result: a proven “no entry” with a list of frames. You never pay anyone for these pages again.
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The search said it was possible, and the sources became unavailable during the work
We return the unspent part, and the report says why.
What we promise about the books, and what we do not
We promise
- We will read the named books. The report will list the frames reviewed.
- Every fact links to a scan, and a person checks it against the scan.
- Every “no entry” comes with proof that the book is intact: the records are numbered without gaps, and the years are closed with the priest’s signature and a seal.
- We prove the link between generations with a record that gives the name, patronymic, place and year. If a record does not give certainty, we say so and name the sources that might help.
- You get a private family website with a password, access for your family, and a copy that opens without the internet.
- The price, named before payment, does not change during the work.
We never promise
- A number of generations, or the year the research will reach.
- That an ancestor will be found.
- A portrait of an ancestor.
- A search without limits: the scope is named as a list of books and parishes.
- A Family term shorter than 4 weeks.
- Records younger than 75 years. The law closes them.
- Books that are not online and of which the archive does not issue copies.
3 steps from payment to the report
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Payment
You pay €19 by card, through Stripe. Ordered Family or Heritage? At first we only hold the amount on your card; the bank uses its own exchange rate, so the amount in hryvnias may differ slightly.
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Questionnaire
The questionnaire opens right away in your account, where the report and your tree will also live. The surname, the town or village and an approximate year of birth of the oldest relative you know are enough to send it; relatives and every spelling of the surname can be added later, and everything saves as you type. The last question: start right away, or wait out the 14-day withdrawal period.
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The written report with the findings
The report arrives within five days after the questionnaire, if it asks to start right away: we cannot start the search without your details, so these five days are counted from the day you complete the questionnaire. Without that request, we first wait out the 14-day withdrawal period, counted from the day of payment, and the report arrives within five days after that period.
You can order Family and Heritage here, with the buttons in the pricing cards, or later, with the buttons in the search report. Write questions before paying to pytannia@rodovidarchive.com; we answer in Ukrainian or English.
The right to withdraw: 14 days
14 days to withdraw, no reason needed. Want the report sooner? Tick “start right away” in the questionnaire, and we then refund the part of the work not yet done.
- One email to pytannia@rodovidarchive.com is enough to withdraw. We return the money the same way you paid, within 14 days of your email.
Full terms are on the Rights page. After payment the questionnaire opens on the site at once. A link to your account also comes by email, so you can return to it from any device.
The place name and maiden names: what to ask your family before paying
The search benefits most from the name of the town or village as it was said at home, and the maiden names of mothers and grandmothers. Look for them in a grandfather’s army records, old family papers, old envelopes with a return address, and gravestones.