Bad press for heir hunters

[Redroger]

I believe the large sections of the press make these allegations to divert attention from their own shady practices. I would like to see the salaries of the editors and the reporteres making criticisms madatorally published as part of the headline of any articles concerning people's salaries or commission rates etc. etc.

[Alan b]

The Daily Mail have only gone after F&F because they have seen how popular the program is and they probably have some column inches to spare. I notice how the artice is from only one point of view and that is a handful of people who are unhappy, where are the people who are happy with the service that has been provided from F&F and other companies ?


People have that choice werther to sign and as we have seen sometimes they don't sign on the dotted line and personally I would never sign up until I knew what such fees were.

[jim1]

I'm sure companies like F & F can justify their expenses much more believably than our MP's could who in the main wouldn't command the salaries + perks in the private sector,I'll bet the Fraser Bros. haven't a duck house between them.
Today's Daily,tomorrow's fish & chip paper,today's MP tomorrows Big Brother contestant.

jim

[Ebch]

I would happily sign up at 33% commission if F&F knocked at my door.
Just think, a ready made family tree set in front of you.  All those brick walls knocked down and gaps filled in.  Well worth 33% when you work out the cost of certificates, memberships.  Trouble is I know they never will be at my door - all my ancestors were poor 

[carol8353]

Just think, a ready made family tree set in front of you.  All those brick walls knocked down and gaps filled in. 

Sadly they only need to search back as far as the deceased grandparents,so you won't get an awfully big tree 

Carol

[Nick29]

Ahh, but there have been cases where someone has been assumed to be poor, and then it was found that they had themselves been left money by a relative (if you get what I mean).  Of course, heir hunters only have to go back 2 generations in the UK to find heirs, and most of my "brick walls" are 4 generations back  


You pipped me to the post, Carol 

[Ebch]

So Carol, if my deceased grandfather (1920) was bequeathed money by his grandfather and F&F had only today traced my grandfather would it come to me?
That would knock down a brick wall for me cos I cannot find my gt gt grandfather - I wonder if he was rich   No,  farm labourers in Mayo in the 1790's not likely to be - but I can dream 

[Redroger]

Certainly F&F can justify their expenses far more readily than many MPs and others in the public and private sectors, and certainly the Editors etc. of rags like the Daily Mail! I had no idea that was the paper, but really it had to be, I must have smelt it before I responded to this thread. My grandmother called the Mail the Dail Liar. That was 60 years ago, she was right then and it still is, trouble now it has several rags copying it.

[custard_pot]

There is a bit of me that thinks (and I know before I get jumped on that it is not completely black and white) that if these people had kept in touch with the deceased in the first place they would presumably have been in a will!

I know there are a lot of ifs and buts in that statement but perhaps we should all just try a little harder to communicate once in a while with our family.

Kerry

Thats ok if you know your family. Ok I know 4 cousins on my fathers side but I know there are lots more who I have never met and no nothing about.

Through family history I have contacted 2 cousins on my mothers side but there are more that I know nothing about.

So sometimes its not that you don't keep in touch its finding out who family are.

Christine