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Private Genealogy Tours in Europe

Walking in the footsteps of your European ancestors is the ultimate experience in genealogy. European Focus has organized private genealogy tours for individuals, couples and families since 1996.

Filling your archive with documents like birth and death certificates and land ownership records is an achievement. Seeing the places where your ancestors lived before emigrating brings history alive for you and your family.
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Planning Your Genealogy Tour in Europe

Explore Your Ancestral Town in a way that you never imagined was possible. Have the kinds of experiences that make all the documents you've collected come to life.

Advance Planning

  • Contacts made in advance with pastors, archivists and local historians.
  • Personal scouting of your ancestral town, so that we can become familiar with what there is to see and do there.
  • Personal arrangement of accommodations.

The Time to Enjoy Your Ancestral Town

  • You set the schedule, including when we start and end our day.
  • No rushed itinerary.
  • We adjust to your pace, not the other way around (like on group tours, where you have to keep up with the crowd).

Fantastic Finds

Incredible discoveries are also part of a normal tour. Because you have your guide's full undivided attention and plenty of help from local experts we can search out things that you'd never have time for on a bus tour, where you're sharing your time with others. Our clients tell us again and again, "bus tours are fine to get an introduction, but they are not the ways to go to Europe if you want to have a truly personal experience."

Your Personal Tour

  • You Pick Your Travel Companions
  • Tours for singles
  • Tours for couples
  • Tours for families
  • No mix and match with strangers

Mix Castles with Ancestral Churches

Most of our guests want to mix some tourism in with their research. You can have exactly the kind of tour you want to have, because it's all arranged especially for you. We share our knowledge of Europe gained during extensive travel as (in James' case) a photojournalist for a major daily newspaper published in Germany.

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Genealogy Tour Info

> Genealogy Tours Intro
> Planning Your Genealogy Tour
> Tour Reservation Details
"European Focus lives up to all the promises made, including visiting the churches where ancestors worshipped, the charming villages that show us how they lived, plus the delightful experiences in historic hotels and restaurants."
— Clara Harsh, Ohio

"We have gone on several package tours to Europe, they cannot even begin to compare with the attention and detail that Jim goes through to provide a most pleasant trip."
— Bob and Marlene Rokicki, Michigan

"Traveling with Jim is like traveling with your best friend plus with his knowledge, expertise, and language skills you see more and learn more. You can't find a better way to travel."
— Ralph & Marge Kroehler, Illinois

"I could never travel more than 100 miles away from home again without James and Jenean Derheim"
— Nancy Sauers, California

"We saw and did things we never imagined were possible, and we were truly spoiled the entire trip. The only problem with James is that he did such a great job, we would not want to travel again without him."
— Pete and Judy Hildebrandt, Oregon
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