Looking to find your family roots in Poland ?

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We are a team of professional guides and researchers offering wide range of private, customised tours and genealogy research.

Family roots in Poland

For many years we have been helping people of Jewish and Christian descent to discover their Polish roots. The company was founded in 2006 by Jakub Czupryński; he and all his co-workers are professional researchers and guides.

The range of our services is very wide. Our main field of activity is design & organization of custom-made, private heritage tours for people who want to visit and learn about the country of their ancestors.

We also offer genealogical research for all those interested to learn more about the past of their families, obtain Polish citizenship or reunite with relatives living in Poland.

We are happy to present you a list of references from our numerous clients, institutions dealing with Jewish genealogy, as well as media articles & radio reports about us that appeared in Israeli and Polish media.

Don’t hesitate to contact us for more detailed information about our activities. We promise a quick response.

Explore Poland with our tours

Krakow

The birth of the Jewish community in the royal city of Krakow dates back 700 years. The main centre for Jewish settlement was Kazimerz, a separate town next to Krakow chartered by medieval ruler of Poland, Casimir the Great, first known Polish...

Galitzianer shtetls

The term “Galicia” used to describe a large crescent-shaped area stretching roughly from Krakow to Romania, north from the Carpathian Mountains. Though nowadays it is divided between Poland and Ukraine, the name of the region was...

Warsaw

Dynamically developing and lively city of Warsaw, todays capital of Poland, used to have the largest Jewish community in the country and the second biggest in the world. After the city had been razed to the ground by the German Nazis in 1944, it was...

Lublin And Majdanek

Lublin is the biggest city of eastern Poland, one of the most important historic sites of the country. Located on the medieval route between Kraków and Vilnius it grew into an important trade centre. The city had a long established Jewish community...

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Our team - guides and researchers

Jakub Czupryński

researcher, guide and travel journalist. Specialises in the history of Polish Jews. For several years, he has been carrying out professional genealogical research and organising heritage tours in Poland. Collaborates with the Jewish Record Indexing Poland, Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow and Jewish Community Centre, where he organises meetings and lectures on genealogy.

Jakub Wesołowski

guide and tour leader with background in sociology. Warsaw native with over a 10-year experience in guiding. Licensed guide to: Polin Jewish Museum, Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, National Museum in Warsaw and Chopin Museum. Languages : English, Portugese.

Michał Maziarz

guide, researcher, musician. Active guide and tour leader since 2005, he has a wide knowledge of Poland’s main tourist destinations as well as many small towns, former shtetls and nature attractions of the country. Experienced in genealogy research – especially in Central and Eastern Poland. Keen on languages: speaks fluent English and French, communicative Russian and Yiddish. Apart from genealogy and guiding he specialises in ethnography and traditional music of Central Poland.

A few references from our clients

"Knowing only the name of the village and the Polish spelling of my name, he was able to find living relatives in the area where my grandfather was born"

„In September of 2006, my wife and I came to Europe on a tour of southern Poland. Since I am of Polish descent, I also brought along my family tree with the faint hope of finding some history of my ancestors. Jakub Czuprynski was our guide and... Read more Brian Pelz, Canada

"The trip included tracking down birth records, being reunited with lost relatives and eventually finding the farm my father lived on as a boy in the part of Poland that is now in Ukraine."

„For a number of years I had wished to trace my fathers family history in Poland/Ukraine, but the language barrier meant this was impossible for me. Insiders undertook some initial research that culminated in a trip across the South of Poland and... Read more S. Paliwoda, England

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Our genealogy blog

Where is grandma’s house? Adventures in Waldenburg

A random street in Wałbrzych-Podgórze (Dittersbach) Although as Insiders we specialise in genalogy research about Polish families, we deal also with commisions about former German territories which lie in Poland now ( Ost-Preussen, Pommern, Ober-... Read more

Big collection of Jewish family letters found in Krakow

Photos and letters were found recently in one of Krakow's centrally located apartment houses. The whole collection tells us a fascinating story about prewar Jewish inhabitants, their relatives, friends and lovers who were corresponding with each... Read more

Tracing Ziemba and Swiatek families in central Galicia

A couple of photos from a recent tour I did with Carolyn & Catherine. Girls came to Poland to visit family places and we were all lucky to enjoy the very first sunny days of 2012. We went to Pilzno, Zawada and Tarnów, the third largest town... Read more

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