Anglia Research In The News

Discover news coverage, expert commentary, and investigative features highlighting our work in probate genealogy and inheritance cases.

Find out more about genealogy research in the media and how we can assist you whatever your field of enquiry. Our staff are used to working with documentary makers and film crews, and liaising with producers and directors. They can advise on possible approaches and resources, undertake whatever research is necessary and help to interpret genealogical and biographical data within a historical context.

BBC Sounds Investigation & Podcast “Grave Robbers”

BBC Sounds Podcast “Grave Robbers”

5th July 2025: BBC News: How fake fraudsters stole millions from the dead

8th July 2025: The Law Gazette: Bona Vacantia list taken offline following scams

9th July 2025: BBC News: Unclaimed estates list taken down after BBC probe

The Week: How fake-will fraudsters are snatching estates

11th July 2025: Today’s Wills & Probate: Anglia Research showcased through latest BBC podcast series on Bona Vacantia fraud

17th July 2025: The Sun Club: Grave Robbers: My £1m inheritance was stolen by a criminal gang scamming families with fake wills

19th July 2025: Podcast Critic Review: The next big scam? Thieves who steal the homes of the dead

19th July 2025: The Daily Mail: He didn’t know her, never visited, and wasn’t at her funeral – yet this knife-wielding Romanian thug inherited a frail widow’s home and sold it for £375,000 after police found a cannabis farm inside

30th July 2025: The Daily Mail: A Hungarian fraudster used a forged will to steal the £800,000 house left to us by our aunt. And the police won’t do anything about it

8th August 2025: East Anglian Daily Times: Ipswich heir hunters warns of alleged fake wills in London

14th August 2025: The Financial Times: Inheritance fraud rise reveals immediate need for safeguarding action

WWI Hero Private Edward Price’s long-lost family located by Anglia Research

4th November 2024: New war grave erected for trench sickness soldier

26th December 2024: Boxing Day will always have special meaning now

The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru

19th December 2024: ITV News: How a Chinese filmmaker brought a forgotten British WWII tragedy back to life

Copyright: National Army Museum

Pilot of the Caribbean, WW2 Hero Honoured: How We Reunited a Family for Final Salute

25th May 2023: The Sun: HERO’S SEND-OFF Hundreds of mourners pay their respects to WW2 hero Peter Brown at official RAF funeral after Sun appeal