YOUR JEWISH FAMILY HAS A STORY.

We have the expertise to join up the dots.

Research Roots is a family history practice specialising in Jewish ancestry and probate genealogy.

We offer genealogical fact-finding services for individuals, families, companies and organisations worldwide.

Our clients all share a common ‘need to know’ — but every family’s story is different, and no two projects are ever the same.

Research Roots can help you find out about a family, a person or an event in the past or in the present.

We work with public and private records across the UK and overseas, supported by a network of specialist researchers, translators and archivists. Every project is handled with care and built around your specific questions.

Our clients include leaders in their fields, and we work regularly with legal professionals, authors, academics, and film and programme-makers.

Stories from our clients

“You unlocked a door for our family. What we found behind it was beyond our greatest hopes.”
— M. Postman, Buckinghamshire
“Thanks to you, I spoke to my brother this afternoon on the telephone. It was over 50 years ago that I last saw him. I was a little girl and he was a young married man. We had a really good chat and it was just lovely after all these years.”
— J. Ceratto, France
“Naomi managed to piece together enough information in the course of one afternoon, to solve a family mystery I had been struggling with for years. Her knowledge, resourcefulness and attention to detail are second to none. It's been an amazing journey of discovery, and I can't think of anyone else I would have wanted to lead me on it.”
— C. Glover, London
“Naomi massively helped me piece together some really tricky evidence of my ancestors which, ultimately, helped me and my family to gain ancestral citizenship. She came up with clever ideas for sourcing new and alternative potential types of information which was a real help.”

— D. Williams, London
“I hope you have some idea of what a hugely significant thing it has been on so many levels for me to have been able to discover my Jewish roots.”

— H. Roberts, Manchester
“In August I received an unsolicited email from Naomi: since then I have discovered that my great grandfather was one of 6 siblings and I have established contact with the descendants of the other 5. It has been a brilliant, life-changing experience. Thank you so much.”
— P. Wershof, London
“I had been trying to research my elusive Jewish grandfather for years and getting nowhere… his habitual misdirection proved no match to Naomi's persistent searching… she broadened my family tree from 20 individuals to over 500 across six generations in the UK, US and Israel, uncovered family stories, put me in touch with long-lost cousins, and all-in-all went way beyond combing through archives.
It was a life-changing day when I stumbled across Naomi's service."

— D. Gardner, Surrey

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“This is the story of your past. You will write the future.”

— Hadley Freeman, House Of Glass