We were asked by one of our German partners to find heirs entitled to the inheritance of a German-speaking woman who originally came from Galicia.

As the archives in the former most-Eastern Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy are in a really poor condition, and since it can sometimes take more than a year to process information,  the chances of finding legitimate heirs within due time were relatively poor. But we knew that after the Second World War, 99% of the former German-speaking population of Galicia had emigrated mostly to the German regions of Baden-Württemberg and Hessen as well as to the Austrian Federal States of Upper Austria and Salzburg.

A search in the telephone directory in the abovementioned regions for the relevant family name came up with two entries and, within a very short period of time, we found the son of the nephew of the legator in Salzburg. He too was born in Galicia and had to leave the country in 1945 after the invasion of the Red Army. («)