I find your family

You are looking for your ancestors or any living family members?

You want to explore your family’s history and want to learn more about your relatives?

You want to evaluate the pros and cons of having your DNA tested?

You need assistance in understanding your DNA results?

You request translation, transliteration or transcription of old documents from your ancestors?

You endeavor claiming your Austrian citizenship for Victims of the National Socialist Regime and their direct Descendants?

Then I will be glad to render my services!

My Services

I will identify your family and their roots within the counties of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire (with special focus on today’s countries Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia). For more distant parts of successor states of the previous empire, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, I can offer a professional network of specialists located in these countries. I am also supporting search for Jewish records within the whole former empire.

The research request will employ church records (birth/baptism, marriage and death), vital records (birth, marriage, death, and divorce), military and conscription records, census and court records, cemetery and tombstone records, newspapers and genealogical books, land registers and dominion records, etc.

For each cooperation agreement you will receive a research report and the linked research journal, digital copies of the identified records including an appropriate translation. A family tree printout can be obtained by an additional order.

I offer to translate, transliterate and transcribe your documents from German or any of the other languages spoken or written in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is necessary if you were not able to read German and its multiple handwriting varieties (Sütterlin, cursive or German script).

Your request can be a conversion of a text from one script to another (transliteration), the communication of the meaning of a text (translation) and/or the word-by-word conversion of a text from one language to another (transcription).

I offer support in collecting the necessary documents for requesting the Austrian citizenship for persecuted persons and their direct descendants.

Persecuted persons within the scope of the Austrian Citizenship Act are:

• Persons who went abroad as Austrian citizens, citizens of one of the successor states of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy or as stateless persons with their main place of residence in the federal territory of Austria before May 15, 1955 because they feared or suffered persecution. This also includes those who lost their Austrian citizenship shortly before they left the country because they acquired a foreign citizenship through marriage.
• Persons who were Austrian citizens and did not have their main place of residence in Austria between January 30, 1933 and May 9, 1945 because they would have feared persecution if they returned to or entered Austria for the first time (“prevented return”).
• Persons who, as Austrian citizens, died due to persecution or were deported abroad before May 9, 1945.
• Persons who, as nationals of one of the successor states of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy or as stateless persons with their main place of residence in the federal territory of Austria, died due to persecution or were deported abroad before May 9, 1945