[WSBAPT] Heir search company needed - Any suggestions?

[Katharine P. Bauer]

If possibility of out of country, Igs works well.  We had another one at
first who missed the 70+ Canadian heirs...
On Jun 10, 2015 5:01 PM, "Mike Winslow" <mike at winslegal.com> wrote:

> The link for IGS is
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> http://heirsearch.com/
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> Michael A. Winslow
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> 1204 Cleveland Ave.
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> Mount Vernon, WA 98273
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> Ph. 360-336-3321
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> *From:* wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:
> wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com] *On Behalf Of *Katharine P. Bauer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:35 PM
> *To:* WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv
> *Subject:* Re: [WSBAPT] Heir search company needed - Any suggestions?
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> IGS did a fantastic job for us - 109 intestate heirs in 3 countries going
> to descendants of two sets of grandparents!  Decedent was 89
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dan Roach <dan at danroachlaw.com> wrote:
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> Greetings from Walla Walla:
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> First, many thanks to all for the substantial wisdom shared by so many of
> you over the years on this listserve. Just this week I searched the emails
> and found numerous responses to inquiries (going back to 2009) about
> reasonable and acceptable PR fees, which responses I used to support a
> request for a client in a less than ordinary estate administration.
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> I feel indebted to many of you. If ever I can be of assistance in estate
> matters in my corner of the state, feel free to contact me.
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> On to my question:
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> We need to hire a diligent and effective heir search company to find a lot
> of people in an intestate estate administration. The decedent (in her
> sixties when she died) had no spouse, no descendants, no siblings (living
> or deceased) and thus no nieces or nephews, and no living ancestors.  Her
> father had at least four siblings (one living) and her mother had at least
> seven siblings (one may still be living). We have bits and pieces of
> information regarding a few of the living and deceased descendants of the
> decedent’s aunts and uncles, but not much. We are still looking under rocks
> for clues.
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> *To what professional search firm do we turn?  Thanks for any information
> you can provide about heir search firms that any of you have successfully
> utilized that have put together pretty complete maternal and paternal
> family trees, with current addresses of the living heirs.*
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> This isn’t a large estate but, thankfully, there’s enough in the estate to
> make it worth undertaking the effort.
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> Six or eight years ago I actually assisted the decedent with the
> administration of her father’s estate, which she inherited. At that time,
> upon learning about her family situation, I warned her (more than once over
> those months) that it was going to be a chocolate mess when she died if she
> didn’t have her estate planning matters in order, starting with a Will. She
> agreed and assured me that she would get to it.  After we closed her
> father’s estate, I never heard from her again. It was a coincidence that
> her estate landed in my office after her recent death.
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> As ever,
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> Dan
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> Daniel J. Roach, PLLC
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> P.O. Box 1776
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> Walla Walla, WA  99362
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> dan at danroachlaw.com
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> Katharine P. Bauer
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> Bauer Pitman Lifetime Legal, PLLC
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