Need an Heir Hunter? We Can Help
We specialise in tracing beneficiaries to estates.
If you need help finding heirs or piecing together a family tree, we can assist every step of the way.
Heir Hunting is the process of tracing heirs to an estate. Typically, this could be an estate that is Unclaimed, otherwise perhaps it could be tracing heirs to an estate distributed in a Will.
We have a full range of Heir Hunting Services.
Heir Hunting
If you have watched the Heir Hunting program on the TV, then we regret to advise that it is not all as fancy as the TV portrays.
Typically, unclaimed estates are small. People with large estates do tend to make wills, and thus their estates do not go unclaimed. The type of persons whose estates are unclaimed are often those with just a few thousand in the bank, who thought it was unnecessary to make a will.
This does not mean there are no exceptions to this rule; owning a property is something that has increased exponentially over the past thirty years. As such, the value of unclaimed estates will certainly rise over the next 30 years.
Read our top tips for tracing your family here.
Our research
The world we live in has been dramatically digitised over the last ten years so most of our research is carried out either by searching electronic databases or by purchasing wills, birth, death and marriage certificates. Searching micro fiche scans as they do on the TV is somewhat of a myth.
We carry out research to ensure any heir that we trace is the rightful person. Family knowledge is also a vital part of our research. When we trace family members and then make contact with them, their knowledge could be the vital missing information that we require in order to conclude the matter.
Family knowledge is a vital part of our research
For help and advice call 020 8432 3101 or make an enquiry.