Greek Catholic Metrical Books
Baptism, marriage, and burial registers from the Galician regions where Greek Catholic parish records often anchor 19th-century family reconstruction.
What We Research
Ukrainian family history records are fragmented. The search must follow the record culture, not just the surname.
We map each family to the right confession, administrative system, and archive chain before searching deeply. That reduces false matches and helps recover useful evidence even when the obvious record set is incomplete.
Orthodox Church Records
Imperial-era parish books, confessional lists, and clergy copies used to connect families in Volhynia, Kyiv, Podolia, and other Orthodox jurisdictions.
Civil Records
Birth, marriage, and death registrations from civil offices and archive-held duplicate series when parish material is incomplete or unavailable.
Soviet-Era ZAGS Files
Later 20th-century civil status records, registrations, and document trails preserved through ZAGS offices and regional archival transfers.
Revizskie Skazki and Village Census Trails
Revision lists, household counts, and tax-style population records that help rebuild families before full vital-series coverage begins.
Military and Displacement Records
Imperial, wartime, POW, displaced-person, and postwar military-related files that reconnect emigrants to their home villages.
Key Archives
We work from the archive reality of Ukrainian records, not generic database searching.
The right archive often depends on when the event happened, which empire governed the locality, and whether the surviving records stayed in parish, civil, or regional holdings. We target the repository before spending time on requests.
TsDIAU - Kyiv
The Central State Historical Archive in Kyiv is critical for pre-Soviet records from central and eastern Ukraine, including church books, nobility files, and court material.
TsDIAU - Lviv
The Lviv branch is essential for Galicia, with strong holdings for Austrian-era church and administrative records tied to western Ukrainian families.
DALO and Regional State Archives
The State Archive of Lviv Oblast plus other oblast archives preserve parish copies, civil records, local administrative files, and region-specific fonds.
FamilySearch Ukraine Collections
Digitized microfilm collections help surface Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, and civil material that can guide or accelerate archive requests.
Challenges We Solve
Ukrainian genealogy breaks when the researcher treats one map, one script, or one spelling as final.
Koreni reconciles the archival and historical friction points that usually stall family history projects after the first few generations.
◆Cyrillic, Latin, Polish, German, and Russian record languages within the same family line
◆Different archival logic under Austrian and Russian imperial record-keeping systems
◆Border changes across Galicia, interwar Poland, the USSR, and modern Ukraine
◆Surname and place-name variation across transliteration systems and emigrant paperwork
◆Holodomor, WWII, Holocaust, and postwar displacement breaking the paper trail
Holocaust and Shoah research for Jewish-Ukrainian families
For Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry, we also work with Holocaust and Shoah-era records, ghetto and deportation traces, revision lists, metrical books, displaced-person files, and locality-specific documentation that helps reconnect families fragmented by persecution, flight, and postwar migration.
Our Process
A four-step workflow built for difficult borderland research.
We keep the process structured so you can see where the evidence comes from and what the next archive decision should be at each stage.
01
Intake
We review the names, localities, migration documents, oral history, and family papers you already have to identify the strongest geographic starting point.
02
Archive Search
Koreni searches the right Ukrainian archive networks, church books, ZAGS pathways, and diaspora sources instead of chasing every spelling variant blindly.
03
Document
We obtain, interpret, and translate the most useful records, reconciling script changes, historical place names, and conflicting dates across sources.
04
Report
You receive a structured findings report with sourced family links, archive references, document images or extracts, and next-step recommendations.
Ukrainian Research FAQ
Questions families ask before they start a Ukrainian ancestry search.
These are the sticking points we hear most often from diaspora families trying to move from family lore to documented Ukrainian records.
Can you research ancestors from Galicia, Volhynia, or Podolia if I only know the family surname?
Yes, although the search is stronger when we also have a village clue, immigration document, or approximate birth year. We often begin with North American, British, or Australian diaspora records to identify the correct Ukrainian locality before moving into archives.
What makes Ukrainian genealogy research harder than other Eastern European searches?
Ukraine combines multiple archive systems, several scripts, heavy border changes, and major 20th-century disruptions. A single family line may move across Austrian, Polish, Russian, Soviet, and modern Ukrainian record frameworks, each with different languages and repositories.
Do you work with Jewish-Ukrainian and Holocaust-era family history?
Yes. Koreni researches Jewish-Ukrainian family lines through metrical books, revision lists, Holocaust and Shoah documentation, displaced-person records, and archive collections that help reconnect families fragmented by persecution and migration.
How long does a Ukrainian family history search take?
Timelines depend on the locality, archive access, and whether the records are digitized. Some cases produce useful findings within a few weeks, while archive-heavy or wartime-disrupted projects can take longer.
Start Your Ukrainian Family Search
Start Your Ukrainian Family Search
If your family story runs through Galicia, Volhynia, Podolia, or another Ukrainian region, Koreni can turn scattered clues into a documented research plan and archive search.
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