| It is very difficult to calculate
the expenses of a research on persons, families or coats
of arms in advance. There are various factors to keep in
mind. The expenses depend on the extent and the goals of
the researches as well as on the availability and the preservation
of the main records that will be used and evaluated during
the researches.
Terms of business
- Normally we fix the research goals and priorities with
our clients in combination with a starting fee or we set
a limit for the coming researches. This way the client
can be sure that he will not spend more money than he
originally intended to. When the (starting)fee is used
up, the client will receive an interim report with the
results of the researches gathered so far including all
documents. The report also includes a research prediction.
The client now decides whether to continue the researches
or whether to stop the researches at this state.
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- In principle all agreed fees are to be paid in advance.
The fee includes on the one hand an hourly wage.
- We normally calculate an hourly wage between 30,- to
60,- Euro. Then we have to add on all charges and expenses
that we have to pay for documents, certificates, for the
use of archives, for copies of certificates or records,
for the support of registration or civil offices or for
external researches that may support us in one or the
other case.
- We always choose the most inexpensive way of getting
documents for the client. That means, that we sometimes
prefer to engage and to involve a local genealogist or
heraldry before we will have a lot of travelling expenses
etc. In other cases we also contact directly archives
and parishes when we know that they are prepared to undertake
genealogical researches.
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