Experience & Standards for the Probate Research Industry
The International Association of Professional Probate Researchers, Genealogists & Heir Hunters (IAPPR) aims to provide a single, authoritative voice for industry professionals.
We want to educate, inform, regulate and advise professionals, the public and anyone else seeking an experienced and reliable opinion. IAPPR membership will indicate to lawyers, councils and others that membership exhibits a commitment to high professional and ethical standards.
The IAPPR was founded with the following aims:
Ensuring consumers & clients have recourse against rogue probate research firms
Promotion of the IAPPR member firms and the services offered by them
IAPPR members are ethical professionals, providing expert information
IAPPR members stand for improved ethics & standards within probate research, heir hunting and genealogy through information, education and the support of fellow experts
Definition.
‘The IAPPR provides an authority and association much needed in the sector’
What exactly is probate research? The probate research industry involves tracing, locating, and identifying missing or unknown heirs to estates of people who have died. This is often known as ‘Heir Hunting’ following the BBC1 TV series ‘Heir Hunters’. In the USA , firms are often known as ‘Forensic Genealogists’
Probate researchers will work on both intestate and testate estates, i.e. where there isn’t or is a will, but the common theme is for there to be missing beneficiaries needing to be found.
Some professional firms offer useful additional services, primarily to the legal profession.
Clip from the UK’s BBC1 TV series ‘Heir Hunters’
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