Estate & genealogy records research, done with care.
I'm Alex. I run a small research practice that helps families and professionals piece together the records that connect generations — deeds, obituaries, probate filings, and the family threads that weave through them.
What we do
When someone passes, the paperwork doesn't always pass cleanly with them. Deeds get stuck in a name that hasn't been updated in twenty years. Heirs are scattered across the country. A property sits with no one quite sure who's looking after it. That's where we come in.
Most of our days look something like this.
Our day‐to‐day work is records research — reading old deeds, walking through obituary archives, tracing family lines through public records, and connecting the dots when those records leave questions. Sometimes our clients are attorneys handling an estate. Sometimes they're title researchers who hit a wall. Sometimes they're family members who want to know what happened to a relative's home.
Meet the desk
It's just me and a small team — a handful of researchers who care deeply about doing this work the right way. We're patient. We double‐check. We ask before we dig deeper. When we reach out to a family member or property owner, it's because the records pointed us their way, and we always lead with a question, never a pitch.
How we get in touch
Most of our work happens quietly — in archives, in records rooms, in the kind of databases only researchers love. But sometimes the records lead us to a living person, and we have to ask a question to keep going. When that happens, we reach out by mail, by phone, or occasionally by text or email — whichever the records suggest is most respectful.
- If you're not the right person, just tell us and we won't reach out again.
- If you'd rather not be contacted at all, reply STOP to any text or just let us know and we'll close the file.
- If you're family of someone we've been researching and want to talk, we'd love to hear from you.
Reach out
Have a question about an estate, a property, or a record we've contacted you about? Fill out the form below and Alex will get back to you personally, usually within a business day.
Based in Philadelphia. Our desk sits in the city the work was built around — close to the records, close to the families.