Earlier this year, Ancestry.com announced the building of a new corporate headquarters.  Shar Mansukhani and John Hilbert, principals of Heir Hunters International, toured Ancestry’s current “campus” in Provo, Utah, in 2014.  Few of the millions who use the site and its affiliates ever have the opportunity to visit the headquarters, so they wanted to […]

  In a May 19, 2015, blog post and accompanying news story, CBS affiliate KKTV alerted its viewers to an unclaimed money offer involving a postcard solicitation. In brief, a woman received a postcard informing her she had “unclaimed money.” The postcard neither identified the holder of the funds nor its amount.  In order to […]

  An article from today’s Irish Independent newspaper details the global efforts underway to locate the missing heirs of Kathleen Hilda Ryan.  The Independent’s staff writer Gabrielle Monaghan sets forth the essential facts.  To wit., Ms. Ryan died in Greenwich, England, in October of 2013 at the age of 83, without a surviving husband and […]

Every once and a while, the individual Heir Hunters International seeks simply vanishes from the historical record.  Facing a nightmare scenario, Heir Hunter International’s researchers are forced to spend thousands of hours searching the world over for any information on the individual. Never giving up the search entirely, Heir Hunters International will let the case […]

To reiterate, no reputable heir finding firm will ever ask you to forward to it any money whatsoever–not one single cent!–before you receive your inheritance or unclaimed property.  The only time bank information will be requested by Heir Hunters International is, if after the claim has been recognized by judicial authorities and a court order […]

  A news story on the website of Tampa, Florida NBC Affiliate, WFLA.com, notes that the State of Florida holds $271 Million in unclaimed money and unclaimed property. According to Walter Graham, Chief of the Florida Bureau of Unclaimed Property, the $271 Million an be found in “12.5 million accounts in the [Florida] database,” and, […]

  Often, when Heir Hunters International initially contacts someone entitled to unclaimed property or unclaimed money, the person will hesitate, saying:  “If I delay, surely, eventually, the holder of the property I am entitled to will contact me.” Our response has always been a rather emphatic, “No.”  “Your delay,” we warn, “could result in your […]

S.J. asks Heir Hunters International: Question: “I was wondering if there is unclaimed money and unclaimed property in a state I never lived in under my last name with no first name.  Can I claim this unclaimed money and unclaimed property?” The Short Answer: Sure. Your unclaimed property and unclaimed money can be anywhere in […]

  A little over a year ago, Heir Hunters International began the Unclaimed Money Blog. We felt that the Unclaimed Money Blog could, among other things, help solve missing heir cases where the potential return did not warrant our continued expenditure of time, effort, and financial resources.  Perhaps, just perhaps, unknown heirs might somehow stumble […]

  Often, we are asked by heirs and others who are blessed to have received a large cash windfall, what, in our opinion having handled such situations over the past thirty years or so, should recipients do with their new found riches.   Not being bankers or wealth advisers, we always refer them to those who […]