Public Sector Services
With over 40 years combined experience, Fleetwood is the name you can trust.
Fleetwood Heir Hunting collaborates with local authorities across the UK, including councils, hospitals, coroners, housing associations, and care providers. We specialise in identifying next of kin and managing estate matters. Our service is completely free for referring organisations, allowing families the chance to arrange and attend funerals while ensuring estates are passed on to the correct beneficiaries.
In many cases, we can trace next of kin within 24 hours of receiving a referral. Urgent cases are prioritised to help reduce additional stress and time pressures.
We also have supporting teams to ensure estate administration and any sale of property is organised and completed, enabling end-to-end case management.
If you would like to make a referral, please use the link below. Alternatively, if you would like further information, please send your enquiries using the link below.
Our Genealogy Work
An unknown heir can create serious legal issues for estate administrators and solicitors. We provide certainty, assisting executors in moving forward with confidence, knowing that no detail is overlooked, by cross-referencing various databases and tracing relatives who may have moved around.
Due to the nature of Genealogy work, our research does not have geographical boundaries. Whether the family moved to Ireland, Australia, or the United States of America, our research team is well-versed in tracing families across the globe.
Our range of services include:
- Bona Vacantia Research, Heir Hunting & Unclaimed Estates
- Family Tree & Missing people* Research
- Dealing with or tracing the owners of empty or abandoned houses
- Document & Certificate Research
- Probate Record research
If you want to trace your family history, expand your research, perhaps locate heirs to an estate or simply need help or advice with any type of Genealogy matter do not hesitate to call us.
*Missing people research: We are able to assist with finding missing people, although we are not a detective agency and are unable to find people who do not wish to be found.
Our Research
The world we live in has been dramatically digitised over the least ten years. Because of this most of our research is carried out either by searching electronic databases or by purchasing wills, birth, death and marriage certificates.
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.