Genealogy - Back to the Roots - Family Tree Tours in Maramures, Satu Mare, Cluj

Joe and Mary McKay from the US, California

Genealogy preliminary research
Family reunion and back to the roots visits
Family Tree Party
Family tree updates
Location: Vetis, Satu Mare
Additional touring - mountaineering in Maramures; Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Wooden Churches, UNESCO Heritage site visits, Barsana Monastery, countryside, traditional villages, The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance

Tzvia Shakar, Eitan Litani & Family from Israel and the US (California and Minnesota).

Family reunion and back to the roots visits
Family tree updates
Location: Maramures - Sighetu Marmatiei, Craciunesti
Additional touring - mountaineering in Maramures; Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Ellie Wiesel Museum, Mocanita Steam Train; Barsana Monastery, Turda Salt Mine, Cluj Napoca city tour; countryside, traditional villages, markets, household, and very good tuica, visinata and afinata tasting

Smilu and Family from Israel

Back to the roots tour
Location: Satu Mare, Negresti Oas
Additional touring in Romania - mountaineering in Maramures; Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, Ellie Wiesel Museum, Barsana Monastery, Turda Salt Mine, Cluj Napoca city tour; countryside, traditional villages, Corvin Castle (Hunedoara)
Additional touring in Hungary: airport transfer, Budapest city tour

Airport Transfers

Why Choose Us?

We speak multiple languages.

We are native Romanian and Hungarian speakers, fluent in English, and can get along with Hebrew, Italian, French and German.

We are not geniuses, just went to school, pay a bit of attention, and have some good connections. Probably also helped the fact that Transylvania is a multiethnic region, nowadays with roughly ~ 60% ethnically Romanian people, ~ 20% Hungarian (Magyar, Székely), ~ 8 German (Schwabian, Saxon, Zipser), ~10% Gypsy, and under 5% Ukrainian, Serb, and other ethnical groups.

The situation was a bit different during the 18’Th and 19’Th century, when probably it was something like: ~ 40% ethnically Romanian, ~ 25% Hungarian, ~ 15% German, ~ 10% Gypsy, ~ 5% Jew and under 5% Ukrainians, Serbs.

I can personally say, as long as I know, that I am something like 25% German, 25% Romanian, 25% Hungarian, and not sure about the rest because one of my grandpa’s was born somewhere in Galicia (present day Ukraine) and there the situation was even more complicated .

You can choose single, multiple, or complete services.

We offer mainly custom services / custom packages which are basically a combination of multiple single services tailor made to the traveler’s needs.

It can be a complete package as a sightseeing tour, a guided heritage tour or a family tree tour, even airport to airport tours, but we offer also, as we call it, single services like:

Airport transfers from or to Budapest, Cluj Napoca, Debrecen, Timisoara Airports
Services of a private driver or other transportation services
Car rentals from local, flexible companies
Organization services
Training and team building type activities
Translations and interpreting
Research, representation or just consultancy

We can offer airport to airport all inclusive services.

We call a service, a package or a tour as airport to airport all-inclusive when we plan the whole trip and organize for our travelers all the needed services from landing at a specific airport to taking off from the same or another airport.

In these cases we expect and meet our travelers at the airport terminal and say goodbye in the same place. “All-inclusive” usually includes:

Planning and creating a custom tour – itinerary, sites, objectives etc
All the necessary reservations
Airport transfers and all the needed transportation services
Guiding and interpreting
Assistance throughout the whole period of stay

In this way we can spare a lot of time and money and gain more comfort and safety.

Tours are flexible with us - we focus on your curiosity and interests.

We are flexible and always deliver considering your wishes. For example, a specific place or area might catch your attention and decide to stick around more than it was planned, we are flexible enough and can easily adapt to such situations or even more than that.

We prefer to guide and deliver information towards your curiosity and interests rather then follow a specific, memorized program.

We will value your time and widen your knowledge.

As small business owners with several years spent also in multinational corporations we learned to value time.

Being passionate about history and with a rich experience in travelling across Romania and Europe we can promise that if you are interested we are able to widen your knowledge about our regions and about Eastern Europe in general.

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