Heir Tracing in Africa: How We Found a Family Out of Reach for Over 11 Years
Heir tracing in Africa works by starting with the little that is known about the deceased, working back to a home area, and using local investigative experience and community networks to find the family. It is slow, but it works. We recently did exactly this for the estate of a Europe-based Kenyan professional whose children had not been located for over 11 years. The search took more than 18 months.
