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Genealogy Society Presents gems. “These records can contain wills,” she says, “but and course coordinator for “From Sea to Shining Sea:
How To Use Probate Records often the best information comes from other records – Researching Our Ancestors’ Migrations in America” for
the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January 2021. She
and our ancestors didn’t even have to die to make an
To Find Ancestors appearance in a probate action.” will coordinate the fall virtual intermediate foundations

course for the Salt Lake Institute later this year. Lyttle is
Free and open to the public, the meeting will be in-
person 1 to 3 p.m, Friday, Oct. 15 at the Blake Library a member of the board of the Association of Professional
Probate records are a in Stuart. Face masks are optional. In addition to Lyttle’s Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.
rich genealogical resource, presentation, the meeting will include a business session In addition to its monthly programs, the Genealogical
according to Annette and light refreshments. For those unable to attend in Society offers a variety of services at the genealogy room
Burke Lyttle, the featured person, the meeting will be available on Zoom. To in the Blake Library in Stuart including an extensive
speaker at the Martin participate on Zoom, go to mcgsfl.org and register by research library, access to several genealogy websites
County Genealogical Oct. 13. and assistance from MCGS volunteers. The society’s
Society’s October meeting. A full-time genealogist and family historian since meetings are held in the John F. and Rita M. Armstrong
Presenting “Probate 2012, Lyttle owns Heritage Detective, LLC, offering Wing of the Blake Library. For more information about
Records: Wills and a professional genealogical services including research, membership, activities and services go to mcgsfl.org or
Whole Lot More.” Lyttle Annette Burke Lyttle education and writing. She was a faculty member call MCGS President Lisa Tompson, (772) 888-2422.
will discuss how to find for “Exploring Quaker Records in America” at the
probate records online and mine them for genealogical Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburg in June 2020
iT’s The law

Did You Know That, In
Florida…

By Adam S. Gumson, Esq.
If the divorcing spouses
can’t agree on how to
distribute their marital
residence, the court may
be asked to partition the
residence and, in such case,
may direct that it be sold
and the proceeds divided.
A decedent is the
person who died. Probate
is the legal process where the decedent’s assets are
distributed to the decedent’s beneficiaries. Probate may
be necessary if financial accounts do not have properly
named beneficiaries, if real property is titled solely in the
decedent’s name, or if the decedent died as a result of
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