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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump inherited more than just cash from his immigrant grandfather his paternal granddaughter Trump emigrated from Germany to New York in 1885 he came to America with little more than a name he later changed he lived a true rags to riches life leaving his widow and three kids a modest fortune when he died new records show Fred Trump had an estate worth 500,000 in today's dollars when he died in 1918 he trusted his estate to his wife Elizabeth but also appointed a guardian for his children Elizabeth Fred and John later on Donald's father Fred built on the elder Trump's financial bedrock to help create the Empire home today by his brash big-mouthed grandson the Trump Dominion is valued at more than 10 billion dollars by the Donald and four billion dollars by Forbes his detailed will is now available online through ancestry.com which invested two years and ten million dollars to digitize 170 million probate documents dating from 1668 to 2005 you