Posts By: koded

Every week the Treasury Solicitor updates the public ‘Bona Vacantia’ list of cases where someone has died intestate and there are no known heirs. Starting with the name of the deceased, probate genealogists, the professional ‘heir hunters’ employed by probate lawyers, may embark on a search process that can at times be relatively simple, at… Read more »

The general public’s perception of probate genealogy has changed following the broadcast of programmes such as ‘Who do you think you are?’ and ‘Heir Hunters.’ What was a relatively unknown industry has become high profile and beneficiaries are more likely to welcome the knock on the door from a professional heir hunter rather than great… Read more »

Daniel Curran gives you the inside view of incomplete search records. Heir hunters, who have not taken out indemnity insurance before located heirs have received the distributed estate, know how problematic it can be when an entitled beneficiary emerges who had not previously been found, despite the heir hunters best attempts to make a complete… Read more »