For this blog post, I decided to use a different style of writing to tell the story of my great, great grandfather’s – George Francis Howard’s – will. In March 2018, I found his probate file from Alcona County, Michigan, on the Family Search website. Although the record included a Petition and Order for theContinue reading “Where there’s a will…”
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“The Review is pained to announce the fatal termination of the illness of Geo. F. Howard, station agent at West Harrisville.” With these words, I began to read about my great, great grandfather, George Francis Howard.[i] I was in the Alcona County Library in Harrisville, Michigan, where they have a marvelous local history room. TheContinue reading “Close to Home”
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