Probate records can be useful, but perhaps a bit more difficult to use than some other record groups.
Your best bet is to find will or probate indexes to locate your male ancestor. Study the names of people named in the will, inventory or estate settlement. Learn the relationship of each person to the testator, especially cousins or kinsmen. Identify the witnesses and executors [if not wife or son] to see why they were involved. Relative? Business associate? Neighbor? Do the same with the inventory and final settlement papers.
You could get lucky and find a brother, unmarried sister or even the wife's father named somewhere in the probate packet.
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