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
Always a pleasure and satisfying experience working with you!
Pearl City, HI
Decision Maker
Mar 02, 2026
Staff was very professional and knowledgeable. Responses were quick and right on point.
Los Angeles, CA
Attorney
Feb 20, 2026
I appreciated how everything was done timely and there was complete follow through on commitments.
Yardley, PA
Attorney
Feb 19, 2026
We are thrilled with HeirSearch! We have used HeirSearch to find beneficiaries of trusts twice now, with wonderful, fast results. I highly recommend not wasting your time searching for hard-to-find people and trust HeirSearch. Best money spent!!
West Palm Beach, FL
Attorney
Oct 30, 2025
The individual assigned to our case was well tuned to our needs and budget and delivered results in a timely manner.
Chevy Chase, MD
Attorney
Oct 22, 2025
Fantastic experience with HeirSearch! Their team was incredibly professional and efficient. I was able to locate a remainder beneficiary all the way in Egypt-something I thought would be nearly impossible. Highly recommend their services for any complex heir tracing needs!
Johnston, RI
Trustee
Jul 25, 2025