Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night Again –
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Today’s challenge is to “Share something you learned from a probate file or will that you wouldn’t have otherwise known about.”
I agree with Randy Seavers of Genao-Musings. This is hard! Thanks, however, for the challenge!
One of the first probate case files that I found was for Lewis Crandall of Van Buren County, Iowa. These court documents helped me identify the children of Lewis and Almira Crandall. [Crandall Probate]
An 1877 land record and court filings in Platte County Missouri involving Guilford Hornbukle and his wife Sarah helped me establish a death date for Sarah’s mother, Elizabeth Burke. [Death Date]
However, the 1884 court record invojving the estate of John Burke identifies the children of Henry Burke of Platte County, Missouri as the hiers of John Burke. This document identifies many of the grandchildren of John Burke. [Burke Court Record]
