Bowles documents

94 page images for the Bowles family, Earl’s side: 42 portraits, 9 photos, 43 documents. Filter by kind, decade, person or a word in the caption; nothing leaves the browser.

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Not found

Searched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.

Family testimony

Supplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands apart from the three record tags above S24.

DNA evidence

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Bowles

94 page images — 42 portraits, 9 photos, 43 documents. Every thumbnail opens the full scan and every scan can be downloaded. Each image carries the tag its own text earned; no tag has been upgraded to put a document on this page. All 1187 page images, by surname.

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Bowles — 94 pages

Two gravestone photographs from Potosi Cemetery, 1936 and 1947, from Find a Grave — Earl's great-great-grandparents William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles, the parents of Lydia Mae Bowles Coffman, which is where this line joins the Coffmans.

Portraits (42)