"Heir Hunters"

[uk2003]

Makes morning TV watchable  and me very jealous, please come knocking at my door soon Neil - half mil will do fine 

Neil drop trystan a PM and get that posting counter fixed seems stuck on 1 posting

Ken

[Aulus]

Neil drop trystan a PM and get that posting counter fixed seems stuck on 1 posting

I wondered what was going on there, but then realised that posts in the "The Lighter Side" forum don't count towards your post count.

[FraserandFraser]

Looks like I will stay on 1 then

[uk2003]

Neil drop trystan a PM and get that posting counter fixed seems stuck on 1 posting

I wondered what was going on there, but then realised that posts in the "The Lighter Side" forum don't count towards your post count.

Opps

Completely forgot about the non count in this forum - but you can still come knock on my door 

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[Mr. MIGKY]

What did this topic get merged with? and where is the link for it?

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[mshrmh]

I've now caught up with the recordings of the first three programmes & feel this is a better put together series so far than the first. I feel as though there's more emphasis on the research & work needed rather than trying to make it a "drama" & "chase". I've been interested into the insights where things aren't straightforward - eg transposing names, looking for siblings based on multiple names, seeing a Jewish marriage certificate etc - nothing like as glib as some of the Who Do You Think You Are programmes where results appear as if by magic sometimes.
I first came across this "heir hunting" some years ago on a radio programme which featured a genealogist who (like the Teviots) looked at smaller estates - the one featured was that of a lady in Wales - they talked about twin birth certificates showing time of birth & even traced the family baptisms (several done together) so it was useful in showing some of the things that are regularly found that cause questions.

Thanks to Fraser & Fraser for their participation in the TV series & to Neil for his comments here.

[trish251]

It sounds so interesting - I would like someone to sell it to the ABC down under 

Trish

[Necromancer]

certainly meticulous research !

I'm especially impressed with developing a list of the offspring of siblings, and locating them in 28 hours. (as with the Atkins from West Derby yesterday)

I could do the 'did Myrtle get married and have any kids' (post 1911/12) alright - but how do you find out where the offspring of Myrtle - say 3 kids born in the 1940s - are today ?

Electoral Rolls I guess .... but what if the 'no publicity' box is ticked , and/or if there are a couple of dozen of those names 

[annieoburns]

There was a batchelor uncle in the family who has died long since. For various reasons, contact had been lost with him since the early 1950's.  My father thinks he was the only living relative and had a letter from an 'heir hunter' some 10 years ago which he threw in the bin thinking it was a 'scam'.  I presume there was a window for making a claim - now long past.

 I would like to try and fill out details and wonder if there is an archive for unclaimed estates?
 
Another one of those very common names and I had no luck looking through Death index.   I hope someday to locate a family grave and perhaps he is buried there.

Anne