Search Services
HeirSearch provides forensic genealogy search services to legal and trust professionals to help them find missing heirs and meet their fiduciary responsibilities. Since 1967, we’ve successfully completed tens of thousands of worldwide heir searches with a 97% success rate.
Estate and Trust
We use our professional expertise to identify, locate, prove and report known and unknown heirs or beneficiaries, both domestically and internationally.
Notice
We help clients fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities in providing notice to heirs by supplying current contact information (or the results of our due diligence search efforts) in order to provide notice of estate or trust matters.
Property
We identify, locate, prove and report heirs, successors and assigns, or beneficiaries on matters related to Clear and Quiet Title Actions and Property Ownership. These include Land, Oil, Gas and Mineral Rights Owner Searches; Intellectual Property Owners/Copyright Owners Searches; and Unclaimed Property Holders, Lost Security Holders, and Unresponsive Payee Searches.
Our Search Service Expertise Includes
- Locating Missing, Unknown, or Estranged Parties for Notice or Distribution of Funds in Probate or Intestacy Matters
- Determination of Beneficiaries for Trust Termination
- Determination of Owners, Heirs Successors and Assigns for Real Property Title and Oil, Gas or Mineral Rights
- Locating Witness to Wills
- DNA Kinship Verification Learn More
- Multilingual Research Staff
- Discretionary & Ethical Research and Investigative Procedures
- Verification and / or Completion of Other Third-Party Genealogical Research
- Vital Record Searches & Obtaining Records to Prove Heirship
- Tight Timeline & Budget Management for Court-Appointed Administrators
- Expert Witness Testimony and Proving Heirship to the Court
- Family Tree Reconstruction and Validation
- Court-Accepted Affidavits & Due Diligence Reporting
- Affidavit or Declaration of Heirship Learn More
Other Search Services
Thank you for your help in locating our beneficiary! We have since been in contact with him.
Bluffton, IN
Attorney
May 21, 2025
Prompt responses and all communication were clear. The investigation time was excellent.
Eureka, CA
Trustee
May 21, 2025
HeirSearch has always found my "missing" descendants and appropriately contacted them, so that they feel confident that the contact was not a scam. I am an attorney with an emphasis in probate; estate planning, including trusts, and property law. I have used HeirSearch since 2012 and have always received legally accurate results. My recommendation is not to waste your time in trying to find heirs and descendants, just go directly to HeirSearch. To do otherwise is a waste of your time and your client's.
Silver City, NM
Attorney
Apr 23, 2025
The sales rep was honest and responsive. The researcher was excellent and very thorough. Highly recommend and will use the service when needed in the future.
Bordentown, NJ
Attorney
Apr 15, 2025
HeirSearch’s researcher was great to work with! She was very responsive and was able to answer our questions.
Westminster, CO
Attorney
Apr 10, 2025
Your staff was very available and responsive. We are very pleased with your service.
Attorney Leesburg, FL
Attorney
Apr 08, 2025