heirlens
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How it works

From an address to an heir list,
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Heir Lens runs the same sequence a good researcher would — it just runs it in one pass and writes down every source as it goes.

  1. Step 01

    Resolve the parcel

    You type an address; we match it to the parcel record behind it. That's where the legally recorded owner names come from — not the mailing label, the deed.

    • Address autocomplete with parcel matching
    • Recorded owner names, deed date, and sale price
    • Property type, county, and assessment details
    • Bulk CSV import when you're working a whole list
  2. Step 02

    Look up the owner

    The owner names go to a public-records provider for identity, age, vital status, and known relatives — the backbone the rest of the research hangs on.

    • Age and vital status per owner
    • Recorded relatives with relationship codes
    • Addresses used to confirm identity, not just names
    • Same-name strangers screened out before they can pollute the tree
  3. Step 03

    Find the obituary

    Obituaries are the strongest evidence of who survived someone. We search funeral homes, newspapers, and memorial sites, then verify the obituary is actually about your owner.

    • Multi-source search across funeral homes and news archives
    • Identity gates on middle initial, age, and location
    • Survivor lines parsed into structured relationships
    • Children's and spouse's obituaries followed when they matter
  4. Step 04

    Build the family tree

    Records and obituaries are reconciled into one tree. Where they disagree, the obituary wins on relationships and the record wins on identity — and anything still unresolved gets flagged.

    • Children, spouses, siblings, and grandchildren
    • Per-stirpes branches for heirs who predeceased the owner
    • Duplicate and nickname collapsing (Terry / Terrance)
    • Visual, editable tree you can correct in seconds
  5. Step 05

    Apply state inheritance law

    The tree runs through an intestate-succession engine. Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington are fully modeled — including spousal shares and community-property rules where they apply; other states fall back to a general per-stirpes model.

    • Per-stirpes distribution down deceased branches
    • Spousal shares and their interaction with children
    • Reserved shares where an heir died after the owner
    • Every percentage explained, not just asserted
  6. Step 06

    Score and prioritize

    Each lead gets a 0–100 score from how solvable and how actionable it is, so a list of hundreds sorts itself into the ones worth a phone call today.

    • Evidence strength and heir count
    • Contactability of the identified heirs
    • Occupancy and property signals
    • Sortable, filterable pipeline with saved views
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Then you work it like a pipeline

Research is the start. Everything after it is built for actually contacting people and closing.

Bulk import

Drop in a CSV of addresses and the queue researches them in the background while you work.

Contact enrichment

Phone numbers and emails for the heirs who actually hold a share, not everyone in the record.

Lead checklist

Each lead tracks what's done and what's missing so nothing stalls halfway through.

Full research trail

Every source, search, and decision is stored on the lead — including the ones we rejected and why.

Notes and status

Working notes and pipeline status per lead, so a team can pass properties back and forth.

Deed documents

Attach the recorded deed to the lead and keep the paper with the research.

You always get the last word

Automated research gets you 90% of the way in a minute — the last 10% is your local knowledge. Every part of the tree is editable: add a child the obituary missed, mark someone deceased, correct a relationship, and the inheritance math recalculates instantly against state law.

  • Add, edit, or remove any family member by hand.
  • Mark someone alive or deceased and watch the shares redistribute.
  • Re-link a grandchild to the right parent branch.
  • Re-run research on demand when new evidence appears.
  • Corrections stick — a re-run won't quietly overwrite your edits.

Want the detail on how we keep results accurate and consistent? Read the accuracy methodology.

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