How it works
From a few details to a documented history.
Every project follows the same careful path — whether your story reaches the 1800s or the medieval record.
Share what you know
Names, rough dates, places — even a little is enough. It takes about five minutes on the Get Started page.
A free assessment
The team assesses the records available for your family and tells you honestly what can be traced — free, and with no obligation.
Choose your package
Pick a tier by how far back you want to go — or a special package like hourly research or an oral-history session. This is the step where you pay; nothing is owed before it.
Research and verification
We trace your lineage through civil registers, censuses, church and synagogue books, immigration and land records — and check every name, date, and place against a primary source.
Your report arrives
An interactive family history you can explore online — tree, mapping, notable figures, photos, and a full appendix of results — that also prints to a keepsake PDF.
Where we go deep
Research specialties.
Some family lines call for specific records and languages. These are areas where we work often.
African American lineage
Censuses, Freedmen’s Bureau files, church and land records — research shaped by enslavement, migration, and Reconstruction, handled with care and honesty about what the record shows.
Irish heritage
Civil registration, Catholic and Church of Ireland parish registers, Griffith’s Valuation, and the emigration records of the Famine era.
Scottish heritage
Statutory registers and Old Parish Records through ScotlandsPeople, censuses, and emigration lists.
English heritage
Parish registers reaching back centuries, civil registration from 1837, censuses, and probate records.
French heritage
Civil registration and parish registers held in France’s departmental archives, including Huguenot and emigrant lines.
Scandinavian heritage
Church books and parish registers across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, with the emigration records that carried families to America.
Jewish lineage
Synagogue and community records, vital registers across Europe, and immigration manifests — research that honors lines disrupted by displacement and persecution, honest about what survives.
Italian heritage
Civil registration through the Antenati archives, parish books, and town records across the regions of Italy.
German heritage
Church books and civil records, including documents written in the old Kurrent script.
Polish & Eastern European heritage
Partition-era archives across Russian, Prussian, and Austrian record systems.
Free consultation
Start with a few details, not a commitment.
Give us names, dates, and places — we’ll begin with a free assessment, no obligation, to see how far back your family can be traced.
Get startedOr reach us directly — (917) 522-1457 · cisco@sapling.family