When you find a probate case file for a relative, look closely at the people to whom he owed money and the people who owed him money. There’s a reasonable chance that some of them are relatives. The relationships won’t be stated in the record (as that’s not their purpose). But those names could be clues as to potential relatives.
You may even find that the court determined if was doubtful your ancestor’s brother-in-law would pay him the $25 he owed him in 1889, like I discovered.
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