The Inheritance Genealogist

The profession of inheritance genealogist originated almost two centuries ago.

Since then, the number of professionals has continued to increase and the range of their missions to widen.

All carry out a real work of investigation, making use of all the human and material means at their disposal in order to achieve the desired result.

As privileged partners of solicitors, they intercede to:

• establish the legal transmission of inheritance to those, for whom some or all of their heirs are unknown,

• validate or invalidate the inheritance rights of relatives who claim to be heirs, locate heirs or legatees that are known but whose places of residence are unknown,

• identify the beneficiaries of an abandoned property, the joint owners of an estate…