It’s important to be found …
VS Probate & Overseas Research Inc.
In business over 20 years
Our company assists law offices, financial institutions and government organizations in Canada and the United States to locate legatees, distributees, to find missing heirs and beneficiaries in probate matters.
Our mission:
To provide you, our valued client, with the highest level of expertise possible in professional genealogical research.
We are a genealogical probate company large enough to satisfy the varied and specialized needs of a wide range of business clients, yet small enough to maintain close, personalized attention to each case we handle.
We offer a high level of experience in a range of services, such as:
Identifying, documenting and locating heirs at law in North America
Tracing missing beneficiaries and unknown heirs in Europe
Locating miscellaneous records in the United States and Canada
Preparing Affidavits of Due Diligence for court purposes
Testifying in court as a Forensic Genealogist
Analyzing foreign documents for their authenticity
We are a disinterested party. We never enter into any financial agreements with heirs.
The final product of our research is a Report or an Affidavit of Due Diligence.
Our Reports or Affidavits are thorough. Numerous exhibits obtained during the investigation, such as birth, marriage and death certificates; obituaries; census, military, or immigration records and many others, are incorporated into our Report or Affidavit, along with a genealogical chart of the decedent's families.
Vera Shpolyansky
Director and Forensic Genealogist
Founder, VS Probate & Overseas Research Inc.
Vera is the founder of VS Probate & Overseas Research Inc. and a lecturer. Her lectures, “Ukrainian Roots” (conducted at the Surrey Museum, Surrey, BC) and “Genealogy for Beginners” (White Rock Community Center. White Rock, BC) were of great interest to those who decided to research their ancestors. Vera has been in heir tracing business since 1997, and in 2015 she became a Member of the Advanced Level of the Forensic Genealogy Institute (Dallas, Texas, USA
