Heritavia

Living report

The handover is not a folder of scans. It is interactive: a map of ancestral homes, ancestor horizon, chronology, people cards and research log.

Map

Ancestral homes and migrations across Eastern Europe — villages where the family stood, not state flags.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line (public redacted case).

Nest map example

Horizon

Depth of ancestry by line — you can see where the archival ceiling stops the search.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line.

Depth by line
Charužka
~1740
Važnik
~1690
Vaškievič
~1820
Mazanik
~1705

Chronology

Family events on the timeline of their era — marriages and border shifts on one strip.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line.

Era strip
  • 1883Marriage, Pahost-Zaharodzkifamily
  • 1921Border split Poland / BSSRera
  • 1927Marriage at Pahost churchfamily
  • 1953Wedding, Mienskfamily
  • 1986Wedding, Mienskfamily

Stories

Key accounts you can retell to your children — not a list of names.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line.

Stories

Pinskaje Paleśsie

Paternal-line core around Pahost-Zaharodzki — about three centuries in one place, a dense peasant and burgher network.

In search of free land

Sale of land in Kapiejnaje, Ihumeński paviet; move to Laby, Mienski paviet; purchase of land for all the sons of a large family.

In search of a runaway girl from Lithuania

This is about great-great-grandmother Hražyna. No parish books — we search through her descendants’ DNA. Matches converge on a geographic triangle in Lithuania. All parishes in the area are being checked.

In search of a better life. Immigration to the USA

I traced grandfather’s brother who left for the US in the early 1900s: passenger lists, census, Latin surname variants — the link restored after 70 years of silence.

From captivity to Sweden

After captivity in WWII the trail went cold. Through Swedish archives and displaced-persons lists he turned up as a resettler in Sweden.

Home from captivity

Andrej Ryhoravič went missing in World War I; in World War II he was taken captive, returned home and started a family.

Deported and fallen

Tracing relatives forced to Germany in WWII and those who never returned: Ostarbeiter lists, camps and military losses.

Sources

Every claim labeled: canon · hypothesis · DNA — never mixed into one heap.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line.

Labels on facts
Marriage 15 May 1883, Pahostcanon
Birth year of Jakub Makaviec ~1680inferred
Vaškievič ↔ M* (Hražyna bridge)DNAhypothesis
Nest near Švenčionys / Ignalinahypothesis

Research log

A transparent trail of work — what we looked for, what we found, what is missing from the fonds.

Sample

Example: Paleśsie / Charužka line.

Log fragment
  • found
    Marriage metric 1883, Pahost-ZaharodzkiNIAB / parish
  • search
    Revision lists Botava, Pinsk district, 1850sin progress
  • negative
    Parish books Švenčionys for Hražyna ~1888not in available fonds
  • found
    DNA cluster overlap: Vaškievič ↔ M* ≈62.8 cMDNA summary

We do not promise Deep Nostalgia, a public world tree, or a DNA laboratory. If you already have DNA results, we interpret and integrate them into the report.

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