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 working with you!
Sudbury, ON
Legal Assistant
Sep 20, 2024
HeirSearch was able to complete our request in a very reasonable amount of time. I am happy with the results and will definitely use HeirSearch in the future should the need arise.
Milwaukee, WI
Vice President of Trust Operations
Sep 13, 2024
Great service. Quick replies to inquiries. Perfect results.
New Brunswick, NJ
Paralegal
Jul 23, 2024
What a case for sure! Thank you for your assistance. Nothing but good feedback from us…HeirSearch kept us up to date throughout the process.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Trust Officer
Jul 07, 2024
The team was great to work with and I appreciated the responsiveness and their willingness to send follow up emails if we were slow in getting back to them with information needed. Overall, it was a great experience.
Charleston, WV
Fiduciary Wealth Advisor
Jul 07, 2024
Very timely work done locating an heir in another country! I've never needed HeirSearch's assistance before, but for this job it was fantastic!
Colorado Springs, CO
Attorney
May 29, 2024