My daughter's Paternal 5th Great Grandfather Phillip L. Gesell has such an informative will. I found it today at Ancestry. I've been wondering what all I'd see as far is it pertained to my own ancestry with the roll out of Ancestry's Genetic Communities and today I thought about what it might mean for her ancestry as she too has atDNA tested at AncestryDNA. While pretty much all of my lines are here in the US prior to the Revolutionary War, my daughter, Brittany has German lines which come to the US around 1830. She also has an English line that immigrates in about 1890.
Phillip L. Gesell's Will is so wonderful because it names the children and the husbands of his daughters as well as naming those who live out of state. Three of the children are living in Iowa.
His Will is Recorded in Franklin Co Indiana.
Below is a small snippet of the will but it is perhaps the most informative portion.
Will of Phillip L Gesell
Probate Date 28 Aug 1871
Probate Place Franklin, Indiana, USA
Item Description Will Records, Vol 2-3, 1870-1890
Will Records; Author: Indiana. Probate Court (Franklin County); Probate Place: Franklin, Indiana Will Records, Vol 2-3, 1870-1890 Ancestry.com. Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Indiana County, District and Probate Courts.
Accessed March 21, 2017
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