Shtetale

Pricing

Read the records free.
Dig for twelve a month.

The atlas and the memorial-book search are free to search and read. Researcher opens your tree, the translations, the villages, and the story.

Visitor

Free

Search every spelling of the town, read the books, and look around the villages.

  • Search the atlas in every spelling, Yiddish to Americanised
  • Surname search across the memorial-book library, with book and page
  • Three passage translations a month, Hebrew or Yiddish to English
  • Read every village: posts, photos, streets, burial notes
  • One saved town dossier to come back to

Read-only in the villages. No GEDCOM import, no story writer, no surname alerts.

Recommended

Researcher

$12/month

Bring your tree, write the story, and reach the other descendants of your town.

  • Unlimited passage translations, original beside literal and plain English
  • Unlimited town dossiers with notes, photos, and a source on every fact
  • Post in the villages and message other descendants of your town
  • GEDCOM import from Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Gramps, matched to towns
  • Narrative writer: a footnoted 3 to 12 page story, PDF or DOCX
  • Weekly digest when a new descendant or a new surname hit appears
  • Export everything you added as JSON and PDF, anytime

One person per account. Illegible scans are flagged, not guessed at.

Before you decide

The short version of what happens to your subscription and your research when things change.

Yes, from the billing portal. Your subscription runs to the end of the period you paid for, then stops. Nothing is deleted. You drop back to the Visitor plan and keep reading what you found.