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Researched in archives, parish registers and old newspapers

Your Family History. Every fact with its source. Every gap named.

You give us what you know: names, places, dates. We look for your ancestors, read every source ourselves and tell you what we find. As a private website and as a book to print.

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USD 1 or 1*Basis or Max10 Decemberlast day for ChristmasVouchernever expires

* Fixed price in the chosen currency; your bank may charge fees.

Illustration: a bound book in dark red cloth. Stamped in gold on the front: “The History of Your Family” above an empty line, and “Andante Genealogy” at the foot.
Your family book. As a PDF to print and bind, with all the plates and footnotes. Plus your private website, which stays online.

Contents

Three chapters: what you get, how we work and what it costs. At the end, answers to common questions and the contact form.

  1. IWhat you getWebsite, book, a note
  2. IIHow we workSearch, read, check
  3. IIIPrice and giftBasis and Max, Christmas, voucher
  4. Questions and answers
  5. ContactWrite to us
  6. The example: a whole family, both sidesIts family tree, to try out

Chapter I

What you get

A website, a book, a note. In both packages.

your-family, after sign-in
The example website: a dark family tree with cream cards for each person, lines per family branch and a search box

Your private website

A family tree to click through, every person with dates, stories, sources and a confidence level. In five languages. You and the relatives you invite have access. It stays online.

Illustration: an open family book, on the left a plate with its caption, on the right the start of a chapter with footnotes.

The family book as a PDF

The same stories as a book, with the plates and all the footnotes. To print, bind and give away.

A note from us

What surprised us about your family, and where we would keep looking.

A copy for home

The website offline, plus the data as GEDCOM for any family-tree program.

Letters to archives

Ready-written requests for the next steps, to the offices that might still hold something.

Every ancestor with sources and a confidence level. How many generations there will be depends on the archives. We don’t promise a number, but every fact we deliver you can check against its source yourself.

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Chapter II

How we work

Search, read, check. In that order.

  1. You send us what you know

    Names, rough birth years and places of your grandparents, if possible of your great-grandparents, and for Swiss families the place of origin. A short form in your account, after paying, ten minutes.

  2. We search

    In civil registers, parish registers, city directories, newspapers, the official gazette of commerce and in archives. Tools with artificial intelligence help us search large newspaper collections. Searching is not finding: we check every hit ourselves.

  3. We read every source ourselves

    And write down what it says, not what it might say. What the sources don’t give stays open. Where they contradict each other, both versions go in the book.

  4. You get an email with the link

    As soon as everything is finished. Your account then holds the website, the book, our note, the copy for home and the letters to archives. If your family knows better than the records, write to us and we correct it.

Sensitive matters you decide beforehand: children born out of wedlock, convictions, illnesses. Show, ask first or leave out.

About living people we collect nothing, except the names we need to start.

Chapter III

Price and gift

Two packages, one price per family. Christmas until 10 December.

Basis

USD1*

For one family, from the freely accessible sources: your private website, the family book as a PDF, our note, the copy for home with GEDCOM and the letters to archives.

Max

USD1*

Everything in Basis, and we keep looking: on paid platforms such as Archion and Ancestry, and in the side branches, your ancestors’ siblings and their families. We write to the archives in your name; their fees are yours. At the end we enter every person into an online family tree of your choice, adding to one that already exists.

* Fixed price in the chosen currency; your bank may charge fees.

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For Christmas

Ordered by 10 December, the finished history lies under the tree. Later there isn’t enough time. Then there is the voucher: at once as a PDF, to print and wrap. The person you give it to redeems it in January and fills in the form themselves.

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Vouchers never expire.

Questions

What people want to know before they order.

How many generations will you find?

We don’t know that beforehand, and we don’t promise a number. It depends on what the archives hold. In Switzerland the parish registers often reach far back, in other regions less far. You get everything that can be documented, and a list of where it could go on.

What if something is wrong?

Then write to us. If a source was misread or your family knows better than the records, we correct it free of charge for as long as the website is online. What the sources don’t give, though, we cannot add.

Basis or Max?

Basis searches the freely accessible sources: civil registers, parish registers on FamilySearch and Matricula, newspaper archives, state archives. Max goes further: paid platforms such as Archion and Ancestry, the side branches, the correspondence with archives in your name, and at the end we enter every person into an online family tree, for example on FamilySearch. Only deceased people go there, and only with your consent. Both packages include the website, the book, our note, the copy for home with GEDCOM and the letters to archives.

Will it be ready for Christmas?

If you order by 10 December, yes. After that you order a voucher. It comes at once as a PDF, and the person you give it to redeems it whenever they like. Vouchers never expire.

How do I get the result?

As soon as your family history is finished, we send you an email with the link. Everything is then in your account on this website: you open the website and download the book, the GEDCOM file and the letters to archives. Nothing comes by post.

What do you need to start?

Names, rough birth years and places of your grandparents, of your great-grandparents too if you know them, and for Swiss families the place of origin. Plus whatever is told in the family. About living people we need only the names that form the start.

Who does the research? Can I see your work?

One person reads every source and writes every page; nobody else touches your family’s file. You can watch that work: on Reddit, as u/full_poulet, we answer strangers’ genealogy questions in public and for free, each answer with the records we found and their sources.

See our work on Reddit (opens Reddit in a new tab)
Do you work with artificial intelligence?

Yes, for searching. Old newspapers have been digitised by the hundreds of thousands of pages; tools with artificial intelligence help us find the right passages in them. The reading, checking and writing is done by a person: nothing goes into the book before one of us has seen the source. Every fact on your website has a source you can look up yourself. Nothing is invented.

Does the website stay online?

Yes. You see it after signing in to your account, and you invite the relatives who should see it too. You also get a copy for home that runs without the internet, and the data as GEDCOM for any family-tree program.

In which languages?

The website comes in five languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, all on the same website. We write the book in one of them, the language you choose. We read sources in German, English and French; a little Italian, Spanish and Mandarin is enough for some sources.

Where can I order from?

From Switzerland, the EU, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and most other countries. You pay by card, in francs, euros, pounds or dollars; from Switzerland also with TWINT.

Contact

A question before you order, a hint, a wish: write to us. The person who does the research answers, never a program.

We answer by email, usually within a few days.

Contents

  1. IWhat you get
  2. IIHow we work
  3. IIIPrice and gift
  4. Questions
  5. Contact
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