not a dna test, ancestry research, like getting a guy to look through records so i can find out where my ancestors are from

Oh, okay.

So what would you give him?

Dunno about such services tho.

id tell him the name of my great-grandpa and the city he's from, and he'd buzz through the records, id do it myself but this is kinda hard to do online if you dont have access to all the resources (i literally dont even know what those would be)

Mormons run this due to their obsession with having to marry their ancestors according to correct rites so they won't burn in hell.

Familysearch.org is the big website. But there's more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genealogy_databases

ill check the wiki, but i tried familysearch and its impossible because either my grandpa didnt have a surname, or he had a bullshit made up name for legal reasons