If you come from a family of Bulgarian immigrants, conducting genealogical research is essential for learning about your ancestors’ history, claiming your right to European Union citizenship, or investigating potential inheritance rights. At Mesken Bulgaria, we trace your missing or unknown family connections in Bulgaria’s official archives and reconstruct your family tree using legal documents.
Name changes during periods of migration, lost documents, or incomplete birth records are the biggest obstacles to exercising your legal rights. Genealogical research legally removes these obstacles.
To apply for Bulgarian citizenship based on ancestry, it is mandatory to obtain the original birth certificates (Akt za Rajdane) of your immigrant ancestors (mother, father, grandfather, grandmother) in Bulgaria and submit them to the relevant authorities.
When your ancestors immigrated to Turkey, their first and last names may have been changed. We legally handle the process of obtaining a Name Equivalency Certificate, which proves that the original Bulgarian name in the Bulgarian archives and the name in Turkey belong to the same person.
We conduct retrospective cadastral and inheritance rights investigations at local municipalities and land registry offices to identify any real estate, farmland, or plots of land that may have been inherited from your ancestors.
We begin the process by reviewing the family tree records, immigration certificates, and, if available, citizenship declarations obtained from the Population Directorates and State Archives in Turkey.
Based on the data obtained, we are conducting a detailed on-site search with our team of legal experts at the relevant local municipalities (Obština), population offices, and the Central State Archives in Sofia.
We obtain official copies of original birth certificates, family registry records, and immigration documents identified through our research, and deliver them to you along with Apostille certification and certified translations that are valid internationally.
