We are an international heir tracing company. We generally receive our heir tracing commissions from court-appointed executors or from the probate court itself. Of course, we also assist private individuals who are searching for their relatives. Still today, there are numerous families who were separated in the chaos of World War II. We have already reunited many families. For example, a German family had assumed for decades that their immediate relatives had perished with the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the Second World War. However, our investigation showed that these relatives were not present on the ship and were therefore able to reunite the family after many years of supposed loss. Surprisingly, relatives can be found today who are still living in Germany.
Our assistance is requested when it proves especially difficult to trace legal heirs or relatives, since we have more extensive possibilities at our disposal as a professional heir tracing agency than an executor or probate court. We have our own archive with countless historical address books, communal family registers and inventories regarding the location of civil registry documents and church registers, in particular for the former East Germany.
We are thereby able to successfully conduct research in modern Eastern Europe. Judging from our experience, the roots of many German families can be found there.
Furthermore, we also maintain exhaustive internal databanks that allow us to work quickly and efficiently. Modern computer technology also allows us direct access to worldwide databanks with diverse genealogical data pools.
Due to the history of our company, which stretches back over a century, we have been able to build an international network of correspondents comprised of attorneys, genealogists, archivists and historians. This enables us to conduct efficient and successful research, no matter on which continent heirs may live. .
As a result of our hundred-year company history, worldwide associate network and state-of-the-art computer technology, we are able to trace heirs at the highest professional level and can therewith effectively conclude almost all of the heir tracing assignments we receive.
Nevertheless, at this point we would also like to mention that should no legal heirs be found, the state is granted the title of inheritance and the inheritance entitled to the testator’s relatives goes to the state.
