Family Heritage Search

The twelve centuries of the recorded history of Russia were saturated with intricate coexistence of tradition and culture, witnessed unions and wars, fratricide and self-sacrifice, religious hatred and multinational cooperation in fight for common cause. All the calamities that Russia had to go through led to families broken apart, waves of immigration, villages left only in the memories of the former dwellers and on archive pages. This country as no other lost so many people who, in attempt to save themselves, their families and their loved ones, fled from the crucible of wars, guillotine of the Bolshevism, despair of destitution and ugliness of xenophobia. But there is time to gather stones.

Being a renowned specialist in Russian and Eastern European travel planning and a highly socially motivated company Exeter International is proud to implement its knowledge, expertise, potential and resources to facilitate family reunions, discovering ancestry hometowns and search for family heritage. Our established relations with governmental institutions and expansive network of representatives and partners in Russia and Eastern Europe allow us to be very efficient in supporting your family heritage travel and your endeavor to retrieve the information about your ancestry.

We possess an invaluable experience in tailoring family heritage trips to Russia, including Saratov Region (the former German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic where the Germans lived beginning from the XVIII century and up to August 28, 1941), Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, St Petersburg and Moscow; to Belorussia, including Vitebsk, Baranovichi and Minsk; Ukraine, including Odessa, Kiev and many other cities; and further through the territory of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

We will be honored if you entrust us with the mission of researching your family background and allow us to accompany you to rivers, meadows, forests, villages and towns which your ancestors called Homeland.