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 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
Shareholders Searches
Pension Plan Searches
Mass Tort Plaintiffs Search
Heirs of Wrongful Death Search
Already used you three times, am a very happy customer, and have recommended you to my professional fiduciary colleagues!
San Rafael, CA
Fiduciary
Aug 24, 2023
Thanks so much for your help. You all did an amazing job. Everything was very thorough and detailed. We really appreciate it!
New Bern, NC
Attorney
Apr 01, 2022
I was very impressed with my final product which included a notebook with all of the research information and family tree neatly organized and in protective covers. I also appreciated the ongoing updates as the research was being conducted. I would definitely use HeirSearch again.
New Bern, NC
Attorney
Aug 24, 2023
I really liked how responsive the team was. They were quick to update me and to respond to emails. I also liked how they were willing to make tough calls as part of their investigation.
Twin Falls, ID
Attorney
Aug 24, 2023
We were very pleased with the response and will use you again when the need arises.
Rapid City, SD
Trustee
Aug 08, 2023
Prompt and courteous service, very responsive to questions! Would use again.
Boca Raton, FL
Attorney
Aug 08, 2023