About us
Our team is primarily professional historians and philologists who came to commercial genealogy after years of scientific and teaching activities.
Unlike amateur genealogists, we came to the genealogical business not after studying our own family tree, but after painstaking, methodically verified scientific work on the study of the genealogy of the Ukrainian nobility, the society of Ukrainian lands from the Middle Ages to the turbulent events of the 20th century, anthroponymics and onomastics of Ukrainian surnames. The baggage of acquired knowledge and skills allows us to work not only narrowly and precisely on the history of a particular family, but also to be able to feel this history against the broader background of the era. Our task is to present not just a set of facts from the family's past, but to show the history of your ancestors, their life, mentality, experiences, peculiarities of everyday life and family life.
Briefly, the team of the historical research agency:
Yaroslav Lyseyko
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History, Museology and Cultural Heritage of the National University "Lviv Polytechnic". The field of scientific interests is the genealogy of the nobility of the Rus' Voivodeship in the 15th-17th centuries, the early modern history of Ukraine. He compiled his first "commercial" pedigree back in 2013, since then he has been combining scientific and teaching activities with the entrepreneurial activities of a commercial genealogist and historian. He has more than a hundred successfully studied family histories, compiled genealogical trees, and solved family secrets.
Main scientific works:
- Military service population of the Syanok land in the second half of the 14th—17th centuries. Dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences: 07.00.01 / Ivan Franko National University of Lviv / Lyseyko Yaroslav Bogdanovych. – Lviv, 2012. – 252 p.;
- Tarnavsky coat of arms of the Sas in the Syanock land in the last quarter of the 14th – beginning of the 18th century. // Drohobych local history collection. – Drohobych, 2012. – Issue XVI. – P. 79 - 87.
- Migration of Russian noble families from the Syanok land in the first half of the 15th century. // Princely Age. – Lviv, 2013. – Issue 7. – P. 229-238;
- Yaroslav Lyseyko. The noble family of Pakoshovsky coat of arms Truby in the Syanock land at the end of the 14th - in the first half of the 16th century. // Genealogical notes. Lviv, 2015. – Issue XIII (new series VII). – P. 1-9;
- Lyseyko Ya. The Semushovsky family coat of arms Old horse in the Syanock land in the XV-XVI centuries. / Yaroslav Lyseyko // Genealogy. Collection of scientific works. – Kyiv, 2016. – Issue 2. Genealogy of social, local and ethnic groups of Ukraine: sources, research methods, connection with social history. – P. 131-140;
- Jarosław Łysejko. Przenikanie kniaziów ze wsi na prawie wołoskim do stawwy szlacheckiej ziemi sanockiej w XVI-XVII wieku / Jarosław Łysejko // Bieszczady odnalezione. – Wetlina, 2016. – No. 4. – S. 21-30;
- Lyseyko Ya. The ennobling privilege of Ostafy Fedkovych from the collection of the Lviv Historical Museum // Sphragistic Yearbook. – K., 2016. Issue 6. – P. 472-479.
- Lyseyko Ya. Coat of arms of noble families of the Syanock land of the XIV-XVI centuries. Lviv, 2022. 152 p.
- Lyseyko Yaroslav, Smutok Ihor. The Humnytsky family of Gozdava coat of arms in Sanok land in the 15-16 centuries // Eminak: Scientific Quarterly Journal. – 2023. – No. 1 (41). – P. 9–23.
Igor Smutok
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor. Since 1999, he has been working at the Faculty of History of the Drohobych State Pedagogical University named after I. Franko. A well-known researcher of the Galician nobility, who compiled the genealogies of the noble families from the Carpathian region: the Kulchytskyi, Yavorskyi, Sozanskyi, Terletskyi, Berezhnytskyi, and dozens of others.
Main scientific works:
- Smutok I. Introduction to the genealogy of the nobility of the Sambir district of the 16th — early 17th centuries (noble nicknames). Drohobych. State Pedagogical University named after I. Frank, Drohobych. Center of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. — Lviv: Kamula, 2008. — 336 p.
- Smutok I. The Beginnings of the Yavorsky, Turetsky, and Ilnytsky Families (15th–16th Centuries) // Genealogical Notes of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society. — Lviv, 2006. — Issue V.- P.55-64.
- Smutok I. The emergence and use of nicknames among the nobility of Turkivshchyna in the 16th–17th centuries. // Genealogical notes of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society. — Lviv, 2004. — Issue IV. — P.28-43.
- Smutok I. The Komarnytskyi family at the end (15th - early 17th centuries): an attempt at genealogical reconstruction // Drohobych local history collection. — Drohobych, 2004. — Issue VIII. — pp. 127–145.
- The Sorrow of I. Komarnytsky-Tatarynovych and Yavorsky-Tsybovych in the 16th–18th centuries. (Episode in the history of the formation of the noble families of the Carpathian region) // Chronicle of Boykivshchyna. — ZSA-Canada-Ukraine, 2011. — Part 2/81(92) -P. 90-125.
- Smutok I. The Origin of the Brylinskys (in the Case of the Nobility of Arseny Brylinsky, Bishop of Przemysl, 1586–1591) // Genealogical Notes of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society. - Lviv, 2012. - Issue 10/4. - P. 1-4.
- Smutok I. Reliability of historical and genealogical data on the legitimization of the Galician nobility of the late 18th – 19th centuries. // Genealogical notes of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society. – Lviv, 2007. – Issue VI. – P. 87-92.
- Smutok I. On the question of the origin of Petro Konashevich Sahaidachny // Genealogical notes. – Lviv, 2014. – Issue XII (new series VI). – pp. 11–16.
Andriy Dutchak
He has been interested in genealogy since he was a student. Like most researchers in this field, he began his genealogical studies with a detailed study of his own family tree. Now Andriy has several dozen successful cases related to the study of the family trees of residents of the former Kyiv, Volyn, and Chernihiv provinces. Andriy Dutchak has experience and skills in working with documents from the Central Historical Archive in Kyiv and a number of Ukrainian regional archives.
Khrystyna Bazyuk
Candidate of Historical Sciences, research associate at the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Specializes in the study of the socio-economic history of Ukraine in the early modern period.
Main scientific works:
- Baziuk H. Scots in the Ruthenian Voivodeship: an analysis of British historiography // Ukraine: Cultural Heritage, National Consciousness. 2022. Issue 36. Pp. 28–36.
- Bazyuk Kh. Lviv copy of the «Declaration of Freedom of Conscience» of James II of February 12, 1687: the context of the creation of the document and its analysis // Manuscript and Book Heritage of Ukraine. 2024. No. 1 (32). pp. 38–55.
- Baziuk Kh. An attempt to localize the trade network of the Scottish merchant Arthur Forbes on the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1685–1692 // Ukraine–Poland: historical heritage and social consciousness. 2024. Issue 17. pp. 36–52.
- Baziuk Kh. Analysis of trademarks from the correspondence of the Scottish merchant Arthur Forbes // Ukraine: cultural heritage, national consciousness, statehood. 2024. Issue 39. Pp. 14–22.
- Baziuk Kh. Representatives of the Scottish Gordon clan as an example of wealthy Lviv burghers of the 17th – mid-18th centuries // Ukraine: cultural heritage, national consciousness, statehood. 2024. Issue 40. Pp. 29 – 40.
Vasyl Banakh
Candidate of Historical Sciences, passionate about genealogical research, and an expert in the field of museum studies
