Family history is one thing.
Jewish family history is another.

Let us help you join up the dots.

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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.

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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.

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What our clients say

  • “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

  • “The results gave our 89-year-old aunts the name of their grandfather and their Polish family history back to 1776!”

    — L. Gould, Chingford, Essex

  • “You are like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible! I am very grateful to you and amazed at your ability to find people so quickly.”

    — D. Murray, Adams & Remers Solicitors, East Sussex

  • “Any professional writer attempting to unpick and reweave real-life histories should give Naomi a call.”

    — N. Jaworski, London

  • “Thanks to you, I spoke to my brother this afternoon on the telephone. It was over 50 years ago that I last saw him.”

    — J. Cerrato, France

  • “All your information was spot on. I have been in contact with my birth mother, we have exchanged letters and spoken on the telephone.”

    — Anonymous

  • “Naomi is a tireless and creative researcher. She unearthed information which my family had not been able to find in several years of research.”

    — H. Harvey, New York

  • “Naomi helped me piece together some really tricky evidence of my ancestors which, ultimately, helped me and my family to gain ancestral citizenship.”

    — D. Williams, London

  • “I have been engaged in genealogical research for 45 years, and rarely have I come across someone who works with such a high degree of professionalism, efficiency and speed.”

    — M. Denn, Dallas, Texas

  • “I asked Naomi to do a small amount of research on my paternal grandfather’s side of the family. She came up with a wealth of detail that was way beyond my expectations.”

    — N. Pistrang, London

  • “Probably the best present I’ve ever given. It was supremely well received.”

    — R. Womack, London

  • “I am going crazy with all of this. I was a normal person before I met you but I’m so glad I did.”

    — F. Hirsch, Yorktown Heights, New York

“The Jews are not a historical people … the Jews are a geological people with rifts and collapses and strata and fiery lava. Their history must be measured on a different scale.”

Yehuda AMICHAI