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NOKfinders Academy

NOKfinders (pronounced knock finders) Academy is where members develop and build their forensic genealogy skills by working on live cases. Cases include Unclaimed and Missing Person cases. Applicants must demonstrate the ability to follow GPS and high ethical standards. NOTE: the cases do not require genetic genealogy.

North American Genealogical Services

Genealogical research provider from Alexandria, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metro region. Comprehensive services including family research and forensic research (unknown heirs), as part of a multi-national company group with offices in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, and Romania.

Northern Horizon Research Associates

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Specialize in forensic genealogy and record searching. They work with legal, corporate and trust professionals, in locating missing heirs, beneficiaries, executors, shareholders, and property holders.

Penner Research Services

Mary Penner, professional genealogist, writer, editor, speaker. Located in Tijeras, New Mexico.

Photographs and Memories by Reem

Home to genealogist and family/community historian Reem Awad-Rashmawi. Photographs and Memories by Reem provides a means to document and preserve life stories. Through a process of oral history interviews, documentation and photographic review and historical/genealogical research, a life story is told, and families’ histories are shared with the next generation. Photographs and Memories by Reem helps individuals, families, and communities record their stories, research their histories, document their genealogies, and produce a record to preserve their memories.

Pursuit of Our Heritage

Pursuit of Our Heritage, LLC, a Massachusetts firm managed by Francine Crowley Griffis. Her specialties include identifying forgotten or missing individuals, recreating family histories and lineages, and conducting Forensic heirship, probate, and real estate research. A hobbyist for more than thirty years—practicing professionally for the past ten, Francine's research focuses mainly in the US, British Isles, Canada, France, and Portugal.

Stone House Historical Research

Led by Board-certified genealogist Catherine B. W. Desmarais, the professional genealogy team at Stone House Historical Research delivers trusted research results. We specialize in reconstructing hard-to-prove relationships. Results are prepared in fully-documented genealogical research reports or legal affidavits of kinship and due diligence.

The Forensic Genealogists

Worldwide Probate Research and Genealogy Research. The Forensic Genealogists are employed or retained by solicitors, law offices, estates, courts, corporations, governmental bodies and financial institutions to undertake genealogical work on legal issues as an independent third-party researcher, analyst and reporter. We search for beneficiaries identified in the Wills of the deceased, identifying the line of succession and, from there, tracing heirs to unclaimed estates, finding missing heirs, missing trust beneficiaries or unknown heirs for inheritance distribution.

University of New Haven - Forensic Genetic Genealogy - Online Graduate Certificate

The online Graduate Certificate in Forensic Genetic Genealogy is the first program of its kind. It provides individuals in the public and private sectors with in-depth training in genetic and traditional genealogy, and the skills and tools required to apply those concepts to criminal, civil, and family forensic investigations.

University of New Haven - Forensic Genetic Genealogy Certificate

The online graduate certificate in Forensic Genetic Genealogy provides individuals in either the public or private sector with the foundational concepts and application of both genetic genealogy and traditional genealogy to forensic investigations.

Your Forensic Genealogist - Erbschaft-Null International [E.N.I.]

We specialize in finding the missing link in your family tree. We help finding missing heirs, missing relatives, and offer you DNA profile analysis through our partners, we work on capital mitigation and citizenship cases, probate and wills. Your research of the impossible made easier with us.