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Family historians who collect documents for years — or even decades — can be missing the "Big Picture" when it comes to truly understanding where their ancestors came from. European Focus answers the questions "what does my ancestral village look like?" and "what is the landscape like around where my ancestors lived?" Photography by European Focus is the next best thing to being there.

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Ancestral Town Photos

Experience Your Ancestral Village in Living Color

  • Thirty (and usually more) digital color photographs of your ancestral town
  • All projects are completed using the highest quality, latest in digital camera gear
  • Photos presented on a CD readable by a MAC or a PC as well as hard copy 5x7s so that you can insert them into your family history scrapbook
  • Copyright release so that you can use those photos in your genealogy projects
  • All photographs are completely identified with detailed descriptions
For an additional charge, I will also shoot digital video in your ancestral town. Digital video does a great job at capturing subtle lighting conditions and atmosphere. If interested, ask me.

What's in your ancestral town photo portfolio?

Also included is a diary of my experiences in your ancestral town. Drawing on more than two decades experience as a photojournalist, your diary usually includes:
  • Names of local archivists or historians in your ancestral town that can help you get more information about your ancestors.
  • Information to help you understand the geography around your ancestral town, important to help you understand why ancestors settled in a particular area of America.

Detailed maps and information to help you understand your ancestors' surroundings

  • Maps of the area around your ancestral town of such detail that you can easily imagine the layout of your ancestral town and the landscape around it. These maps are impossible to locate in America and can only be bought at the source.
  • Village or area histories. These precious books are only available in your ancestral town.

Interest family members in your hobby

Are close family members and cousins bored by genealogy? Professional photographs created in your ancestral town by European Focus give life to pedigree charts and involve those who may not have been interested before. Watch what happens at your next family reunion, when you can show photographs of where your family tree first took root.

Service and success since 1990

European Focus is the world's leader in genealogical photography. I take deep interest in every project because its success means the continued growth of my business.
  • More than 2,200 villages and towns in Europe have been photographed for genealogy enthusiasts since 1990, and my library of images grows by about 100-125 new villages and towns each year.
  • About a third of all new projects produced each year are for return clients, who are eager to see their other ancestral towns.
You're probably thinking that to see your ancestral town using a service this personal, unique and specialized must cost thousands of dollars. You?fre about to be very pleasantly surprised.

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 "This service has saved me from making a long and expensive journey. Short of having been there myself, your photos and narrative are the next best thing. Thank you, my curiosity is satisfied, and very nicely too!"
— Laura C., Naperville, IL

"The photos are truly world class and have added to my ability to explain our Thu?Nringian and Bavarian family roots to those family members who have only a passing interest in genealogy."
— Mel W., Albany, NY

"This has really inspired me to finish the family history and illustrate it with your beautiful pictures..."
— Regina E., Ocean Springs, MS

"We all sat around my mother as she turned the pages and watched her eyes get wider and wider. It was great when she saw the house where her great-grandfather was born."
— Amy G., Orlando, FL

"I received your package yesterday. Thank you so much. What a beautiful presentation you put together. I am looking forward to giving this to my aunt when I go to Chicago in March."
— Noreen S., Pasadena, CA
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