GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Research your family story with evidence, context, and clear documentation.
Whether you are just beginning, trying to extend a family line, verifying an existing tree, or working through a long-standing brick wall, Roots Adventure can build a focused research plan around the question you want answered.
What I can research
Focused research for family lines, records, and unresolved questions.
Record availability varies by place, period, access, and survival. Each scope is shaped around the sources that can reasonably be searched.
Parent and grandparent research
Census reconstruction
Birth, marriage, and death records
Newspaper research
Military research
Immigration and migration research
Probate, wills, and land records
Family tree validation
Brick wall research
South African genealogy
Historical context
Document review and source verification
How the research works
A simple path from starting details to next steps.
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Starting details
Share names, dates, places, relatives, and what you already know.
- 2
Record search
Relevant sources are searched where records and access allow.
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Evidence & timeline
Findings are compared, dated, and kept tied to source context.
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Report and next steps
You receive clear findings, uncertainty notes, and practical next steps.
What the client receives
Findings you can understand and continue from.
Deliverables depend on package, scope, source availability, and the question being researched.
- Documented research findings
- Family tree updates or lineage summary
- Source links and citations where available
- Record copies where access and rights allow
- Timeline of discoveries
- Notes on conflicting evidence
- Research report
- Recommended next steps
Packages
Choose a focused starting point.
These packages set a practical research scope. They do not promise that a specific ancestor, record, or generation will be found.
Starter Research
$35
One focused ancestor or family-history question with initial record searching.
Target delivery: 2 business days
- One focused ancestor or question
- Initial record search where sources are available
- Short written findings
- Recommended next step
Standard Research
$60
One family line or deeper question with wider source searching and documentation.
Target delivery: 3 business days
- One family line or deeper question
- Census, vital, newspaper, migration, or other relevant sources where available
- Timeline, records, and documented findings
- One included revision
Advanced Research
$95
Deeper investigation for a brick wall, source conflict, or multi-source research question.
Target delivery: 3 business days
- Deeper investigation or brick wall review
- Multi-source research and evidence comparison
- Extended report with conflicts and uncertainty noted
- Research strategy and next steps
FAQ
Before research begins.
What information do you need to begin?
Start with names, approximate dates, locations, relatives, and any records or family stories you already have. If the starting point is uncertain, send what you know and the scope can be shaped from there.
Can you research outside the United States?
Some non-U.S. research may be possible depending on location, language, records, and access. The scope is reviewed before research begins.
Can you research South African families?
South African genealogy can be considered as a specialty area under general genealogy research. Record access, locality, and historical period affect what can be searched.
Can you verify a family tree I already built?
Yes. Existing trees can be reviewed for source support, gaps, conflicting evidence, and practical next steps.
Can you guarantee you will find the ancestor?
No. Historical records can be incomplete, restricted, lost, misindexed, or contradictory. The work documents what the available evidence supports.
Will I receive copies of the records?
Where access and rights allow, findings may include record images, source links, citations, notes, or transcriptions appropriate to the package.
Can I order more research later?
Yes. A completed project can lead into a new focused question, deeper family line research, or archive organization work.