The country your family
left, still has the records.
7gens helps you identify and request records from Russia, the Baltics, Poland, the Balkans, the Levant, and the Maghreb. The book comes back in your language.
From your tree to a finished book.
- Names
Tell us the names you have.
Even partial — half-remembered first names and a town that may not exist by that name anymore is enough to start.
- Archive
We work in their language.
7gens reads the original script and helps you find and request the right records from the old country — so they arrive in their original language.
- Translation
The book comes back in yours.
Direct quotes preserved in original. Everything around them rendered into your reading language. With sources.
Families two and three generations from the country of origin.
Often a grandmother's recorded interview, a fading photograph, a town name nobody can pronounce anymore, and a strong feeling that "we used to be from there."
You don't need to read the records. We do. And we don't need them in English — we go to where they actually are.
A book your children can read, with sources your cousins can verify.
Every quote in its original language and script, with a translation in the margin. Every claim with a citation pointing at the actual archival file — by fond, opis, delo, list.
You can hand this to a cousin in Tel Aviv, Toronto, or Tashkent and they can read it. The marginalia, they can verify themselves.
The records are still where you left them.
Your first chapter, drafted from what you already have — in the language of your choosing.