Bohemia · Moravia · Sudetenland
Your Bohemian and Moravian family tree — verified in the original parish registers.
We research the baptism, marriage and burial registers held in Czech archives and build your family tree from them — generation by generation, every person and every parent-child link tied to its source in the original.
Check your ancestral village — freeThe first step is free, with no obligation.
Why it's so hard
Three walls most researchers hit
If all you have is a surname and a village name from a grandparent, you're not doing anything wrong. Three things get in the way.
1
Latin, German and old handwriting
The church books are mostly written in Latin and German, often in old German script. Czech only shows up later — from 1877 in Bohemia and 1905 in Moravia. Before that, you're reading Latin or Kurrent, not Czech.
2
Two names for every place
Almost every village has a German and a Czech name. Many were renamed after 1945, and some no longer exist at all. Search under the wrong name and you find nothing, even though the records are there.
3
The books are in the Czech Republic
The registers are kept in Czech state and regional archives, not where your family lives now. Knowing which archive holds which parish is a puzzle of its own.
What we do
From a family name to a verified family tree
1
Identify the village
From what you know — a surname, a place name, a family story — we work out the right village and parish, even if the name has changed.
2
Find the register entries
We search the baptism, marriage and burial registers themselves and connect the people generation by generation, as far back as the records allow.
3
Read, translate, document
We read the entries (Latin, German, old handwriting), translate them, and record the exact source for every person and every parent-child link, so you can check it yourself.
What you get
A family tree you can look up
- A verified family tree: every person and every parent-child link tied to its source in the original register
- Translated register entries, so you can read what the record actually says
- Your family's village of origin — with both its German and Czech names
- The chronicle as your finished result: to keep, share, or give as a gift
Where a book is missing or unreadable, we say so plainly — we only enter what the records support.
Verified, not copied
Many online family trees are built from other people's trees. One shared surname, one misread letter in old handwriting, one wrong date entered once — and the error travels from tree to tree, sometimes for generations.
We work the other way around: we only enter what the original says, and we cite the source for every statement. That way you — or anyone else — can check each step yourself.
Start with the village
Tell us what you know, even if it's only a surname and a rough area. We'll check, free of charge, where your family came from.