Family research
We all want to know a little better where we came from – what did our ancestors left to us, and with us. A visit to your ancestral town can be more than trying to find the old cemetery and synagogue.
In many places information and documents about the family’s history can be traced – whether its registries of birth, of residence, of commerce.
A visit like this needs planning and preparation – getting to know the family’s history, and then archival research prior to arrival.
What Can be Found
Every Family is different, and every life leaves different traces behind it.
Sometimes its birth registry, sometimes a University record, a business registry or emigration. Every search is tailor-made, and is done with the family, according to the family story and the information the family has to begin with – and then takes it’s own route.
See some examples of the large variety of possible findings and stories.
About Me
Matan Shefi grew up in Israel, studied history in the Hebrew University,
since 2013 has been living in Poland and working as a researcher in the field of family and Jewish history – as a private researcher and in the Jewish Historical Institute (JHI a.k.a ŻIH)