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52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014 – Week 3 Probates (wills and administrations)

Week 3 of   Shauna Hicks  challenge for 2014. This means I'm 3/52 finished. Will I get to the end? We all have copies of wills that "give devise and bequeath all my real and personal property of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situate unto ....." But what items make up the personal property ?These are the interesting aspects of wills. Over the years the wills I've collected highlight many differences between families. In many, the proceeds are given to the spouse and later shared equally among all children. In others, some children are given significantly smaller proportions. Did they upset someone in the family? Perhaps they had been given a helping hand earlier in life. Who knows now? In some families there was absolutely no doubt about who was going to get what. So what has been specifically willed in my extended families? Jacob Scheef left his working horses, working bullocks, farming implements and machinery to all his sons (except my husband's gra...