The archive
One search surface for a fragmented world.
Start with the person, place, or estate you know. Vellumarc helps you discover the records and jurisdictions worth following next.
Read our access principlesTrace ownership, transfers, and the places an estate has touched.
Locate legally accessible testamentary records and their source context.
Follow filings, proceedings, and references across the public record.
How it works
From a name to a navigable trail.
Research gets easier when every result tells you where it came from and where it can lead.
Set the context
Begin with a person, family, place, or estate and narrow the search by jurisdiction.
Follow the references
Move from index entries to the land, probate, trust, and court records they point toward.
Know the boundary
See what is public, what requires permission, and which source supports each result.
Trust & access
Clarity about what can be found—and what cannot.
Inheritance research touches real people and sensitive histories. Vellumarc is built to distinguish searchable public information from confidential estate documents.
Source-first results
References stay close to the record, so context is never an afterthought.
Jurisdiction-aware discovery
Filter the search by place and understand that access rules vary by jurisdiction.
Permission as a boundary
Public indexing does not mean private documents are exposed.
A first look
Start with the shape of the question.
Search by a name, place, record type, jurisdiction, or date. Results show only owner-provided records explicitly marked publishable and keep each source reference beside the metadata it supports.
Open the public searchThe next record starts here
Make the next search the informed one.
Tell us what you are trying to trace. We are building a clearer way through the world's inheritance records.