Most of our trips are built around a region. These three are built around a family. The route bends to the places that matter to you, not the other way around, and the pace is slower because the point is not to cover ground.
Why we built them
We kept getting the same enquiry: a grandparent left Kaunas, or Daugavpils, or a shtetl near Kraków, and someone in the next generation wanted to stand where they stood. The standard itineraries did not fit, because the destination was an address, not a city.
So we stopped trying to bend a group tour around it and wrote proper routes instead, with time built in for an archive, a cemetery, or an afternoon that turns out to be nothing but a field. Sometimes the field is the whole trip.
How they work
You tell us what you know, however little. A surname, a town that may have three spellings, a photograph with a building in the background. We do the groundwork before you arrive, line up a local guide who reads the language and the records, and keep the days flexible once you are here.
They are private by default, because this is not a thing you do on a coach with strangers. If a route we have published is close but not right, we treat it as a starting point and rebuild from there.