Legacy Research & Storytelling
Most people don’t realize how many extraordinary stories are hidden in their ancestry. Eva has a gift for uncovering them with careful research—bringing forward the people, choices, and journeys that shaped your family. Knowing these stories builds pride, connection, and belonging across generations, and gives your family something meaningful to tell, preserve, and pass on.
Every project is tailored to what you want to know, whether that means finding records, understanding a family move, or putting the facts into a story you can keep.
This introductory research is designed to investigate the family tree and uncover the strongest missing, forgotten, or little-known stories worth preserving.
Within this research, I may explore records, historical context, migration paths, newspaper archives, and key ancestors to identify the stories that matter most.
You’ll hear from me throughout the project in the format you prefer — email summaries, text updates, screenshots of records, family tree progress, and voice notes when there’s an exciting discovery. Each update gives you the chance to ask questions, shift focus, or continue deeper into a branch.
Define goals, family lines, and priority questions.
Investigate records, documents, archives, and historical context.
Review findings, adjust direction, and confirm next research phase.
Receive your report and decide whether to expand into premium heirloom formats.
$250
Focused research to identify the most meaningful missing stories in a family’s ancestry and provide a clear summary of the strongest discoveries.
$5,000
A beautifully produced, premium leather-bound family history book bringing together the great stories of your ancestry in a lasting heirloom. It includes deeper research, carefully written ancestral stories, historical context, family timelines, and available photographs or records, presented as a book designed to be passed down through generations.
GetYourHistory was started by brother and sister Eva and Boyan Berry, who both study at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Eva is the history-focused founder: she studies History and International Relations and leads the family-history research and storytelling. Boyan is the business-focused founder: he studies Economics and contributes the business perspective.
Eva Berry is a second-year student of History and International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Eva was born and raised in NYC and has had a lifelong passion for history, but she recently connected it with her family’s history and the stories she found were incredible. She is the daughter of two immigrants, one Mexican-American and the other Bulgarian, and when she began to research, she discovered that behind the seemingly ordinary places her family had ended up were extraordinary explanations for how they had gotten there.
One of Eva’s favorite parts of history—and one of her primary goals in researching it—have always been the untold stories. There’s so much depth in history that it’s easy to gloss over remarkable individuals and events when you're following a curriculum. She often found her interest piqued in subjects she couldn’t afford more than a day on. Conducting research on her own, Eva learned about and created two documentaries for National History Day in the US: one on the role of women in the Mexican Revolution and another on NYC’s cabaret laws and their outdated abuse by city government in the 90s, which won recognition on the city and state levels respectively. That experience opened her eyes to how many forgotten stories are waiting to be told and how many individuals are worth remembering.
There’s a belief in Mexico that a person dies three times. The first is when a person realizes their mortality. The second is when they take their last breath. But the third is the last time someone on Earth speaks their name aloud. When Eva began to research her family’s history, she realized how many exceptional people were on the brink of their last death. History is about people, their stories, and preserving them. And in doing so, injecting life back into the past, bringing it into the present, and passing it on to future generations. That is her mission and it is the mission of GetYourHistory: to allow others to pass on that gift to their family.
“Preserve your family’s story. Discover the people who came before you. Leave your children their history.”
Start with an initial consultation. Click here to get started.
Update timing varies by research scope and record availability, but you’ll receive regular communication by email, text, and voice notes as meaningful discoveries are made and each phase progresses.
Yes. Every project is collaborative, and if new information appears or your priorities change, we can shift focus to different family lines, questions, or periods as the research develops.
No researcher can guarantee that every document survives or has been digitized in every country. The work is always transparent, source-based, and grounded in the strongest records and context available.
If you’re ready to preserve your family’s story, contact our research team.
research@getyourhistory.com