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
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
More information was provided than expected. Have used your company before and will continue to recommend your company to law firms and my current firm when the situation is necessary.
Valencia, CA
Attorney
Apr 07, 2025
Your firm was very helpful and timely. Thanks.
Inverness, FL
Attorney
Mar 19, 2025
The report was deep and convincing that I have identified all heirs I owe a duty to.
Felton, CA
Attorney
Mar 03, 2025