We have had wonderful reviews from the media already ( national newspapers and a radio show in Northern Ireland )
On the Daily Express Matt Baylis wrote on his newspaper article titled: ' Dying To Find Beneficiaries ' the following:
Heir Hunters ( BBC One )
Looks at the work of a very peculiar prefession. Probate researchers hunt down the families of people who died without leaving wills, and, in return for a fee, unite them with never-imagined fortunes. Part private detectives and part family historian, the average private family historian, the average probate researcher is quite an interesting figure and, as the makers of this series have proved, pretty good to follow.
There is something lovely about people getting a knock on the door and a gift from beyond the grave. But that alone would make a boring programme after the first five minutes. An heir hunter's job is more frustrating than that, as last night cases demonstrated. Records are often wrong, and lines of enquiry lead down blind alleys or just peter out. A great deal of work, all too often, seems to lead nowhere. But what turns this process into engaging viewing is the back-story - the truth that's there, all the time and without which, all this painstaking effort would never have been required and their fate reminded us how close each and every one of us might be to the same thing: At one moment a person, with a job, friends, a busy life, at the next an entry on a form, a puzzle for a researcher and nothing more. Heir Hunters, on the of it, seems like a feel-good programme - actually it chills you to the bone. "
In Northern Ireland a radio show was talking about the Heir Hunters show wondering which one of the three main Heir Hunters company was the best. A caller came forward where he said Celtic Research had been wonderful to him in dealing with a case that the other three major companies refused to take on and that we had successfully helped him in a matter dealing with land. Another listener called us to our office telling us, what he had heard on the radio show as he had exactly the same problem, the person on the radio show described, so he decided to give us a call and now, we will try our best to help him too.
We are very happy how the show is going.
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6 comments:
That's good news, Maria. One of the things one often sees in films or novels is someone being left money by a rich uncle in Australia. I wonder why it's always Australia. Come in, Victoria!
Hello Robert and Maria,
received your 'call' Robert ...
I don't know what movies they are, I always thought it was some rich uncle in a castle in England or Scotland.
Maria should be able to tell us which is correct .. where the biggest percentage of 'rich uncles' come from.
Maria, it is a great review, well written, complimentary and so interesting. How was Oxford .. business or pleasure?
Hello Victoria !
Actually, is not really wealthy people who leave these estates, but persons who for some reason or another have estranged themselves from family for example, the case of Lily Fernandez, a woman of Portuguese descent whose body remained undiscovered for three weeks after she died, alone, in her house in Kent. But rather than being some sort of Eleanor Rigby figure, she had had a long, successful career as a popular midwife and had friends in the neighbourhood. Efforts to find her relatives led to India, and then nowhere. The sizeable results of this lady's long working life would sit for the next 30 years in a bank account and then pass to the government, their owner forgotten.
Oxford was just for pleasure, during the weekend and I learned that the word: Ford means crossing the river, so Oxford means the crossing of the ox ! there is actually a street that is covered with ox hooves.
Well, Peter is the best genealogical researcher anyone is going to get, and they've hardly filmed him at all in this series.
It's like kicking off a football league season without Manchester Utd.
Robert thank you for your kind comment about Peter !
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