The IAPPR’s UK media consultant is Danny Curran, who is also an IAPPR founder member and the founder and managing director of Finders International. Finders International is one of the probate research industry’s largest firms, and Danny has nearly 30 years experience in the industry.
The IAPPR is open to the possible appointment of additional founder members and media consultants, especially in other jurisdictions. Please contact us if this interests you.
Danny Curran has established a reputation as an industry spokesman through numerous TV, radio and press appearances, including repeated interviews with:
Danny recognises that professional probate researchers need to come together to raise standards and offer reassurance and protection to beneficiaries, especially from potentially fraudulent, unqualified or inexperienced individuals or firms who may even inadvertently attempt to process their work as correct and authoritative.
If you would like to interview Danny on any aspect of probate research, heir hunting or industry standards, please contact him by calling +44 (0)20 7490 4935.
Latest Media & News
May 2019
Legal Update — IAPPR Members
A campaign to make English and Welsh intestacy laws match those of Scotland - where extended family can benefit from inheritance, rather than it passing to the Crown - has been launched by IAPPR Chair, Danny Curran.
Geoffrey Odds appointed as Company Secretary of IAPPR
At the Annual General Meeting in Paris on the 16th November 2018 Geoffrey Odds was appointed as the Company Secretary of IAPPR.
April 2019
The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit
On the afternoon of Aug. 22, 2015, Dale Tisserand and Melani Rodrigue opened the front door to a small white house in Corning, Calif., a town of 7,500 about 115 miles north of Sacramento. The women, who’d been given the keys by local police, are investigators for the office of the Tehama County Public Administrator. They knew the owner had died in the house the previous week and that his name was Eugene Brown.
January 2019
Probate research: inaugural awards
The inaugural UK Probate Research Awards are to be held on 7 February 2019 at The Mermaid, Puddle Dock, London.
November 2018
The Times : What to do if heir hunters come calling
When a distant family relative dies without a will, relatives in line for an inheritance may rely on the work of probate researchers or genealogy companies. Their detective work, the subject of the BBC’s Heir Hunters, ensures unclaimed money ends up with the relatives rather than the Crown.
IAPPR 2018 AGM News
IAPPR becomes world’s largest association of professional probate firms – and pledges to tackle industry misconduct! Paris, 22 November 2018: The IAPPR (The International Association of Professional Probate Researchers, Genealogists & Heir [...]