Genealogy · Heir Search · The Record
Return
what is owed.
Professional genealogists for families, counsel, and the court. We find the living, prove the line, and write it so a stranger can follow the proof.
Your organization’s story is unique. So is a family. We find it in the archive, build the proof, and tell it with the clarity a probate file requires.
American, British Commonwealth, African American, Native American, and Ashkenazi Jewish research. Extensive heir search and locating. Years on a multi-million-dollar Native American land repatriation matter.
Selected practice
The work
American & Commonwealth
County, colonial, and British records, worked to a proof standard.
African American
The sources after the break: Freedmen’s Bureau, Reconstruction, the Black press.
Native American
Tribal, allotment, and federal files treated with the care the record demands.
Ashkenazi Jewish
Naming, migration, and the archives of Central and Eastern Europe.
How we are retained
We do not search out prospective claimants uninvited, or attach a large commission to the fact of having found them.
Engagements are scoped so the client knows the cost. The purpose is to return land, personal property, or a documented family history — not to insert the firm between a person and their inheritance.