For everyone dealing with trying to figure out a deceased relative's affairs, I feel your pain. My parents created a joint trust to protect their assets. When asked they swore everything was in the trust less the cars. They had moved the house and all their stock holdings and everything was ready to avoid a long drawn out probate. Well, they failed to keep the signed copies of any of the wills created in the Trust. So, luckily, I found wills create 11 years prior. At least we are entering Probate with a will. But, they sort of forgot to file the quit claim on the house to move it into the trust. Hence, we are going into probate instead of filing a simple small estate form to cover a 14 year old car.
No matter how disrespectful, it may seem, ask to see the signed documents, make copies, and then ask exactly where they are going to keep them (what bank's safe deposit box that you are a signer to access).
At least my father will leave a paper trail in the probate system for future generations.....
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
DNA Is Back
OK, the results of my first attempt at a spit in the vial DNA test came back. Did it through ancestry.com. Found out Grandma was spoofin about being part American Indian. The rest was no big surprise. Until I got an email from the husband of a woman who is supposed to be my first or second cousin. She does not know who her biological father is. Sunames for her mother do not match. I have no known male uncles. I smell a family scoundrel! A genealogist dream.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Journey to the Past: Pure Michigan Genealogy-The End
Journey to the Past: Pure Michigan Genealogy-The End: Check this out. Found it on the FGS Conference Blog.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Legacy Webinar - 26 June 2013
Attending the Legacy Webinar - How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists. These webinars are are invaluable and FREE.
Onward to green leaf
Pulled information using green leaf in Ancestry for my first cousin, twice removed's (Pearl Churches) husband, Ortheldo Miller. Lot of new citations and now have previously unrecorded siblings.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Green Leaf -- not just for tea!
25 June 2013 -- I have been at this family search project of mine for almost 50 years. I have had a subscription to Ancestry almost from its date of launch. I always thought I was too advanced to fall for the let Ancestry help you out with its little green leaf. But, curiosity got the better of me and I started to enter trees starting with my grandparents and the information about them that I knew to be true. Well, those trees really took off and grew by leaps and bounds. I didn't really find anything in my direct line that I did not already know, but those auxiliary lines sure filled up. In addition, I have a lot more sources for the migration of my ancestors -- finding where they actually lived at various times. It really helps to flesh them out!
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