This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/1066.2.2 Message Board Post: We are soory to hear that we have lost another "older" member of the family. Angie, for many of us on the Cowan List, you and your Uncle are distant family members. Please make sure that family members that are closer kin to him do not toss out any papers that might be of interest to you as a researcher. It is a difficult time, but at the same time many things are tossed just to get rid of things - there maybe obits, funeral cards, old pictures, etc. that are of no interest to his children, but to others that research this family they may be a lost piece of important family info.