It had been filed six months earlier, in April, and recorded in the county register.

The property description matched my father’s land exactly.

Forty acres of farmland off County Road 12, just south of the grain elevator.

The grantor’s signature line said Edward Charles Morrow, my father’s full legal name, in handwriting that looked like his.

I leaned in closer to the screen.

My father wrote his E’s with a loop at the top, like a cursive capital L.

This one had the very same loop.