We trace your family’s roots through Lithuanian and Polish archives before you travel, then take you to the village itself: the church, the cemetery, the street, in person, with the people who did the research.
You send us the family names, approximate dates, and whatever documents you already have: a naturalization paper, a ship manifest, a grandmother’s letter. A genealogist takes it from there.
They search Lithuanian and Polish state archives, parish records, and address registries to place your family in a specific town, often a specific street, before you’ve booked a flight.
The center of the trip is a visit to the ancestral town or village with a local guide and translator: the church or synagogue, the cemetery, the street, if it still stands.
Where it’s useful, we arrange meetings with local historians, or, sometimes, with relatives still living there, and time in the regional archive to see the original records in person.
openBaltics builds the rest of the itinerary around that core visit, at your pace: Vilnius, Kraków, the coast, wherever it makes sense once we know where your family’s story leads.
Every trip is private: no small-group tier, no shared bus, no handoffs to a subcontractor. The same team that did the research travels with you.
The research and the trip are priced and booked separately, but the research fee is never wasted: it comes straight off the trip if you book one.
Prices shown in USD for reference. You’re billed in EUR.
Tell us the family names, the dates you know, and any town you’ve heard mentioned. We’ll tell you what’s findable before you commit to anything.