We identify them.  We locate them.

If you are administering an estate with a valid will, or dealing with the more complex affairs of someone who has died intestate, we can provide the specialist genealogical research you need.  

You may already know who the beneficiaries are and simply need help locating them.  Alternatively, you may first need to establish who is legally entitled to inherit, according to the law of intestacy.  In either case, we can help. 

Do you need to locate known beneficiaries?

Perhaps you have written to one of the named beneficiaries in a will and they’ve not responded.  It would not be surprising if they had moved on as several years often elapse between the drafting of a will and the death of the person who made it.  Do you even have an old address for the missing heir?

We can provide current contact details for all the named beneficiaries.  Perhaps only one heir is missing.  We are confident we can locate them.  If we don’t there will be no charge.

Do you know who should inherit from the estate?

You may be a legal professional specialising in wills and probate, or perhaps someone administering an estate for the first time.

Whatever your background or expertise you will be presented with the same problem ... do you know who should inherit from the estate and do you know how to find them?  You may confidently leave that specialist task to us.

You are likely to have some knowledge of the family but your information may be incomplete.  Perhaps you have produced or acquired a handwritten family tree that has one or two question marks on it.  Allow us to use our probate research skills to assess the information you provide and build a professional family tree in which you may have confidence.

You may rely on us to provide a complete solution.  When our heir search is complete you will be presented with a family tree (or trees), together with contact details for each heir and an editable spreadsheet defining every beneficiary’s fractional entitlement.  This will also indicate the precise pounds and pence figure that each heir should receive from the estate.  If you are more comfortable with paper reports then we are equally happy to provide them.

Our charges

The nature of our work is open-ended but our professional fees are not.  We do not charge an hourly rate, but instead cap our fees following an initial assessment of the task in hand.

This occasionally means Kindred UK loses out when a task takes longer than we predicted, but that's on us.  You may be assured that this is one aspect of estate administration where the professional fees will not come as an unwelcome surprise.

Every task is different, so it is not possible to indicate here how much you will be charged for our services. Suffice to say that from what we know of other companies’ charges, we believe we are priced competitively.

One further commitment on price that we can make is our No-Find, No-Fee guarantee.  If you ask us to locate a single missing individual and we fail to do so then you will not be charged.

Why choose Kindred UK Probate Research Ltd?

Established in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998 and incorporated in 2014, Kindred UK has accumulated decades of experience in probate genealogy. Our work began at a time when genealogical research depended far more heavily on physical records and manual investigation, and we have continued to develop our methods as increasingly sophisticated digital resources have become available. 

The person working on your task will be an experienced, well-motivated and capable probate genealogist.  And when you ring, your call will not be answered by a frosty receptionist demanding a reference number.  You will be straight through to the person working on your behalf.

Kindred UK has a growing client base of solicitors who return to us for their probate genealogy needs on a regular basis, either to locate a particular missing heir, next of kin or to provide a complete solution to an intestacy.

Kindred UK Probate Research Ltd holds professional indemnity insurance.

We also adhere to the following code of conduct, reflecting our commitment to professional standards and ethical research:  Code of Conduct.