Sample report: the family is invented, the books and references are real. Here the record is found at once; when it is not found yet, the report names the books, with their references, where it should be and rates the prospects of the search.

Want a report like this about your own family?

Start the search · €19
Rodovid ArchiveSearch report (sample)
What we found(sample) · 19 October 2026
  • Melnyk
  • Orthodox

Found: your great-grandfather Ivan Melnyk's baptism, Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski, 1899. The record names his parents and godparentsA witness of a baptism, named in the entry. Godparents were usually relatives or neighbours, so they show where a family lived..

His parents and godparents are in this record; Family opens their names and goes further.

  • Matched by name, surname, year and village.
  • Melnyks are in an older parishA church and the villages assigned to it. Registers were kept by parish, so a village's entries are in the book of its parish church. book too, 1886-1891.
  • 7 books with references, from 1797.
7books with shelfmarks where Family searches
1797-1902years of the books listed below
Your family's trail

Each find points to where the search goes next

  1. 1897-1902Entry found

    The entry is found in this book; its full text opens in the next step.

    BaptismДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.38confirmed
  2. 1886-1891Surname found in the book

    Melnyks appear several times in this book, as parents and godparents.

    Family lineДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.37confirmed

    In your report, here are the book and the years where your surname is written; Family opens the pages.

  3. 1876-1880Book located

    Older parish books, спр.35 (1876-1880) and спр.36 (1881-1885), survive and are open online.

    Family lineДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.35confirmed
  4. 1797Possible trace

    The parish's earliest online books, of 1797, 1798 and 1812, sit in combined Ushytsia district volumes.

    Family lineДАХмО ф.315 оп.1 спр.6707needs checking
  5. False trail

    We set aside ф.18 оп.1 спр.507 and 508, books of Ivankivtsi Dunaivski, a different village.

    Family lineruled out

How promising your family's archive trail is

5 of 5

  • We found the record you asked for.
  • Your family's surname is in one more book.
  • The books go back to 1797.
  • 6 books are already available: Family reads them without a request to the archive.
  • The books cover 105 years.

In your report, your record found sits here: the book and the year; Family opens the names, the frame crop and the reading.

ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.38

Baptism · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski

Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski · 1897-1902

found1899
in your requestIvan Melnyk
year and place1899 · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski
father
mother
godparentsand

Family opens the names in this record. From them the search goes a generation deeper.

Ancestors from the found record · Ivan Melnyk

next generation · Family searches it

fathernamed in the record
mothernamed in the record
Ivan Melnyk1899 · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski · found
  • found
  • named, name closed
  • next generation

A tree with archive references: his parents and godparents, then the Melnyk line in the 1876-1902 books.

Order Family · €471

€490 minus €19: after the search the €19 counts in full

or Heritage, from €971
02

Each request in detail

Baptism · Ivan Melnyk · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski · 1899

The entry is found. The report names its book; the full text comes with Family, and it can also be ordered on its own below.

Where to look

ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.38, the parishA church and the villages assigned to it. Registers were kept by parish, so a village's entries are in the book of its parish church. registerThe church book of baptisms, marriages and deaths, kept year by year. Before 1920 it is the main written record of a person. of Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski for 1897-1902: births, marriages and deaths, with no name indexA list of names volunteers typed out from a book. It allows a search by surname; without it the book is read page by page..

What supports this

First name, surname, year and village match your details, and there is no second such entry in the book. The entry also names his parents and his godparentsA witness of a baptism, named in the entry. Godparents were usually relatives or neighbours, so they show where a family lived..

How reliable this is

Four details match, and the Melnyk surname is also written in the parish's older book, спр.37.

Family line · Melnyk · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski · 1800-1899

The record can be in one of several surviving books. They are named here in the order in which they should be read.

Where to look

Back from the record found: спр.37 (1886-1891), where the surname already appears, then спр.36 and 35 (1876-1885), then the district volumes ф.315 оп.1 спр.6963 (1812), 6731 (1798) and 6707 (1797).

What supports this

The village was identified in the union catalogue of parish registers: Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski, Ushytsia district, Kalius volost, church of St John the Theologian, with the hamlets Shurka, Pylypy, Khrebtiiv and Dzhurzhivka. References and years were checked against the ДАХмО catalogue and the scans of the files.

What we took into account

No books for 1892-1896 were found. If the family lived in a hamlet, the entry may stand under its name rather than under Ivankivtsi.

03

Books and shelfmarks

ShelfmarkThe address of a book: archive, fond (collection, ф.), opys (inventory, оп.) and sprava (file, спр.). With it any archive finds the book.ParishA church and the villages assigned to it. Registers were kept by parish, so a village's entries are in the book of its parish church. and yearsRecordsName indexA list of names volunteers typed out from a book. It allows a search by surname; without it the book is read page by page.OnlineNote
ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.35Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski 1876-1880births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no login
ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.36Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski 1881-1885births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no loginin the file's title: Pylypy-Khrebtiivski
ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.37Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski 1886-1891births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no loginin the file's title: Pylypy-Khrebtiivski, Horiachyntsi, Dzhurzhivka
ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.38Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski 1897-1902births, marriages, deathsnonethe entry is found; the next step opens itthe same hamlets in the file's title as спр.37
ДАХмО ф.315 оп.1 спр.6707Ushytsia district 1797births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no logina copy: the registersThe church book of baptisms, marriages and deaths, kept year by year. Before 1920 it is the main written record of a person. of the district's churches in one file
ДАХмО ф.315 оп.1 спр.6731Ushytsia district 1798births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no logina copy, the same combined volume for 1798
ДАХмО ф.315 оп.1 спр.6963Ushytsia district 1812births, marriages, deathsnoneopen, no logina copy, the combined volume of the district's Orthodox churches
04

Checked and set aside

Ivankivtsi books for 1892-1896

Neither the union catalogue nor the archive's file cards name them, so the search goes through the neighbouring books.

Source: union catalogue, ДАХмО file cards

05

What the next step will open

Which of the Melnyk families in the 1886-1891 book is yours.

What it takes: read спр.37 page by page, starting from the names of the great-grandfather's parents.

Whether Melnyks are written in the district books of 1797, 1798 and 1812.

What it takes: read the Ivankivtsi entries in ф.315 оп.1 спр.6707, 6731 and 6963.

Next step

The record found leads one generation further: Family opens it and takes the line deeper.

The record names your great-grandfather's parents, and the parishA church and the villages assigned to it. Registers were kept by parish, so a village's entries are in the book of its parish church.'s older book already holds your surname. Family reads the books of 1876-1902 and takes the Melnyk line further.

Recommended for your family

Family

€471

€490 minus €19: after the search the €19 counts in full

  • Your father's and your mother's side
  • Every record transcribed with its archive reference
  • An interactive tree in your cabinet
  • 4 to 6 weeks
  • If written archive requests are needed, we file them in parallel and give their date separately

Family includes the entry we found: we have already read it, and in the tree it comes with a crop of the document and a readable transcription.

We start with the books of Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski, 1876-1902

See an example tree

Payment by card or Apple Pay through Stripe, and after the search the €19 counts in full. If the books named here become unavailable, we refund the unspent part.

Start with the search · €19

Heritage

from €971

€990 minus €19: after the search the €19 counts in full

  • Everything in Family
  • Earlier periods and additional sources where they survive
  • Side branches of your choice
  • A separate stage after delivery: we check new facts the family recalls

Payment by card or Apple Pay through Stripe, and after the search the €19 counts in full. If the books named here become unavailable, we refund the unspent part.

Start with the search · €19

The found entry (Baptism · Ivankivtsi Khrebtiivski · 1899) in ДАХмО ф.18 оп.2 спр.38 can also be ordered on its own: a reading of the entry in English, the page image and its exact folio in the book.

€40 €59 minus €19: after the search the €19 counts in full

Start with the search · €19

We start right after payment, with the books already named in this report.

Terms used in this report

godparent
A witness of a baptism, named in the entry. Godparents were usually relatives or neighbours, so they show where a family lived.
parish
A church and the villages assigned to it. Registers were kept by parish, so a village's entries are in the book of its parish church.
register
The church book of baptisms, marriages and deaths, kept year by year. Before 1920 it is the main written record of a person.
name index
A list of names volunteers typed out from a book. It allows a search by surname; without it the book is read page by page.
shelfmark
The address of a book: archive, fond (collection, ф.), opys (inventory, оп.) and sprava (file, спр.). With it any archive finds the book.
Checked by a Rodovid Archive researcher19 October 2026 · sample report

Questions: reply to our letter or write to pytannia@rodovidarchive.com.

Want a report like this about your own family?

Start the search · €19