Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about how a genealogist was needed to determine the heirs of the world’s richest woman when she died... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry describes how a genealogist was needed to determine the heirs of the world’s richest woman when she died... (Read More)
In this article, Katie Rebecca Garner gives tips for finding and using an important resource for genealogy: probate records... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the probate fight by 21 unhappy relatives over the huge fortune left by railroad magnate Mark Hopkins... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry continues the story of the legal fight over the huge fortune left by railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, focusing on Maria Bresee... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry continues the story of the huge fortune left by railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, focusing on adopted son Timothy Hopkins’ lawsuit... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes about a lawsuit contesting Mark Hopkins’s widow Mary’s will, which left the estate to her second husband Edward Francis Searles... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about the many battles over the estate of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, focusing on the 1920s... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about the estate left by railroad magnate Mark Hopkins, and the Gilded Age mansions built with that money... (Read More)
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