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If you need to track a beneficiary or heir across the globe, allow our dedicated team of probate genealogists to step in. At Global Investigations, we have a dedicated team available to help locate missing beneficiaries or heirs, ensuring estates can be distributed accordingly. Contact us today to find out more.
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Need to find a missing beneficiary or heir? Our professional probate genealogists can locate rightful heirs across the globe so estates can be properly distributed. We leave no stone unturned in finding relatives using specialised research techniques.
Heir tracing services help those managing estates locate beneficiaries who can’t easily be found. Common situations requiring heir tracing include:
Whether you’re a solicitor, probate researcher, trustee, or family member, our global network of professional probate genealogists can locate missing or unknown beneficiaries of estates.
With decades of experience, our heir hunters have access to records and research techniques the average person doesn’t.
Our professional heir hunters leave no stone unturned finding heirs thought lost to time or circumstance. Even the most complex global estate cases are within our capabilities.
We utilise various legal methods to pinpoint heirs’ locations:
Electoral rolls, census records, archives.
Birth, death, marriage and divorce registers.
Facebook, LinkedIn and other networks.
Utility records, directory listings.
Utility records, directory listings.
Wills, family bibles, photographs, diaries.
Genetic matching with relative databases.
With Global Investigations, you get access to records and contacts the average person can’t obtain themselves. Our experienced probate researchers know where to dig deeper to find clues leading to missing beneficiaries. No heir tracing case is too difficult for our skilled team.
We operate with integrity and discretion, ensuring proper legal protocols are followed tracing relatives. Our global connections via the Association of Probate Researchers allows us to leverage contacts across six continents. Few heir tracing firms have capabilities as far reaching as ours.
Our work complies with all relevant data regulations protecting privacy. We liaise with both heirs found and the estates to ensure smooth transitions distributing assets. Over decades, our heir hunters have reunited thousands of lost beneficiaries with inheritance rightfully theirs.
When executors can’t locate named beneficiaries, our global probate researchers step in. We access archives, records and family trees to pinpoint their locations or find descendant relatives if beneficiaries are deceased. Even beneficiaries who have moved abroad or changed their names are trackable with our sophisticated research tactics.
Without a will clearly naming beneficiaries, estates can’t easily identify next of kin for asset distribution. Our professional genealogists build detailed family trees pointing to living relatives who stand to inherit. We obtain intestacy orders from courts once establishing legitimate heirs to lost will estates.
For adoptees, donors and their descendants seeking biological family, our global investigators facilitate reunions. Utilising DNA matching, public records, archives and discretion, we locate genetic relatives across the world. Many tearful reunions have transpired thanks to our sensitive research.
In some cases yes. Using public family trees, DNA triangulation, and records, our probate researchers can uncover ancestor trails leading to modern relatives. The less initial information provided, the more difficult and slower the search becomes however.
Speak to our team today for a confidential discussion and let us help you find the right people quickly and accurately.
