An Australian partner office asked us to find any heirs of a Greek who emigrated to Australia, of whom we knew the place of origin and the date of his birth. He came from a small village on the south coast of Greece and worked as a shepherd until his emigration.
Through calls to the local authority, a brother could quickly be found, who according to the mayor had also emigrated; however, nobody knew where. About 1 week after our telephone call with the mayor, a Greek who had emigrated to Germany contacted us, referring to the conversation with the mayor and told us that the brother of the deceased moved to the vicinity of Budapest and changed his name there.
Through the active support of the Greek embassy in Hungary, the new name could be determined and so we finally found the deceased’s brother relatively easily in a village near Budapest. The heir had not heard from his brother for 50 years and despite the death of the brother was glad to now learn the last whereabouts of his relative.
