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
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
Enjoyed working with you and will use you next time such a situation arises.
St Augustine, FL
Attorney
Jul 14, 2025
I have used HeirSearch on several occaisions and they have always provided excellent service and fast turn around times. I will use them again anytime there is a need for their services.
Milwaukee, WI
Vice President of Trust Operations
Jun 05, 2025
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