Have you reached a “brick wall” in your genealogy research? Onsite genealogy research in Ukraine may just be the key to extending your Ukrainian ancestry. We have genealogists in Ukraine who can help!
Challenges in Ukrainian Genealogy Research
Ukrainian records are organized on the local level, so identifying the town of origin is essential, before conducting any research in Ukraine. The borders of what is now modern-day Ukraine have also changed over the years, so identifying any jurisdictional changes for the town is also necessary and may influence where the records are held today. Genealogical research is conducted primarily in church records, so identifying the religion of the family is also necessary. Access to records varies widely depending on the area—there are some records that have been microfilmed or digitized, but many are still only accessible by sending an onsite researcher to the archive that holds them.
Our Team of Professional Genealogists Can Help
If you have Ukrainian ancestry, our professionals can track down the city/town of origin of your ancestors, determine where that location actually is today, and identify where the records for that place are currently kept. Our onsite agents can then visit that location to obtain any documents that are needed.
Onsite Archive Access in Ukraine
Our onsite genealogy researchers have access to the following archives, repositories, and libraries in Ukraine to help track down the records you need to extend your Ukrainian family history:
- Central State Historical Institute of Ukraine – Archive Records of Ukraine
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
- Central State Archives of Foreign Archival Ucrainica
- Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine
- Kiev Archive Records
- State Archival Service of Ukraine
- State Archives in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
- State Archives of Vinnytsia Oblast
- State Archives of Volyn Oblast
- State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- State Archives of Donetsk Oblast
- State Archives of Zhytomyr Oblast
- State Archives of Transcarpathian Oblast
- State Archives of Zaporizhzhya Oblast
- State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- State Archives of Kiev Oblast
- State Archives of Kirovohrad Oblast
- State Archives of Luhansk Oblast
- State Archive of Lviv Oblast
- State Archives of Mykolayiv Oblast
- State Archives of Odesa Oblast
- State Archives of Poltava Oblast
- State Archives of Rivne Oblast
- State Archives of Sumy Oblast
- State Archives of Ternopil Oblast
- State Archives of Kharkiv Oblast
- State Archives of Kherson Oblast
- State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- State Archives of Cherkasy Oblast
- State Archives of Chernivtsi Oblast
- State Archives of Chernihiv Oblast
- State Archives in the City of Kyiv
- State Archives in the City of Sevastopol
- State Archives Research Library of Kiev
- Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
