Search your family history

Search historical collections using a person's name, dates, places and family relationships.

Individual

First name

Last name

Birth year (optional)

Death year (optional)

Country, region or city

Family relationships

Father's name

Mother's name

Spouse's name

Multilingual transliteration and historical surname-variant matching are planned for a later version.

Searches public Europeana collections in this first version.

Research note: Europeana is a cultural-heritage collection, not a dedicated civil-registration database. Results may include photographs, books, newspapers and archival material. Always verify a person's identity against the original record and independent sources.