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Probate Records of Fulton County
New York.
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Shelby County Register of Deeds
Property records, misc. historical records. Tennessee Vital Records: Death Records Index 1949-2009; Divorce Records Index 1980-2009; Marriage Records Index 1980-2009. Shelby County Records: Birth Records 1874-1906; Chancery Court Divorce Index 1945-1997; Circuit Court Indexes 1893-2000; Death Records 1848-1960; Marriage Indexes/Images 1920-1989; Marriage Records 1820-1970; Memphis Census 1865; Memphis City Directories 1859-1918; Naturalization Records 1856-1906; Probate Court Loose Paper Index 1820-1900; Probate Court Will Book Indexes 1830 to 1955. Exhibits: 1938 Historic Aerial; 1949 Historic Aerial; Buck Boshwit Civil War Stamp Collection; Dr. Martin Luther King Assassination Investigation; Health Dept. Milk Supply Reports 1920-1958; James Earl Ray Court Audio Files; Old Shelby County Magazine; Ray Holt Memphis School Article Collection; Shelby County Schools 1922; Snowden Yearbooks; West TN Historical Society Papers 1947-2005.
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Some Wills and Estate Settlements
Families from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware. MAYFIELD, WEST, RODGERS, LEAGUE, COMPTON.
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St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project: 1802 - 1900
Missouri. A collaborative project of the Missouri State Archives, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State and the St. Louis Probate Court. Probate files from 1802 to 1900 have been indexed and are available through the online database. To date, cases up to 1865 are digitized and images of the case documents are available for online research.
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Stoughton, Massachusetts Probate Record Index 1727-1900
Complete index to all Stoughton, Mass. Probates 1727-1900 (including both Suffolk and Norfolk Counties). Also includes transcriptions and images of some probates.
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Walker County, Alabama, lost its earliest records in a courthouse fire on 22 July 1877. The first volume of last wills and testaments covers those filed after the 1877 fire, though some were written as early as the 1860s.
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Tennessee.
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Wills and Administration Collection Index
Part of the Electronic Card Indexes from the Library of Virginia.
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Transcription of the last will and testaments of mostly those in southeast colonial Pennsylvania, along with others.
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West Virginia.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682 - 1800
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A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800. Colonial Dames of Delaware. (1911). These abstracts of the earliest wills of New Castle County constitute a principal reference for 17th- and 18th-century Delaware genealogy. Each entry supplies the full name of the testator and such additional information as profession, place of residence, dates of filing and probate, names of children, relatives, wives, witnesses, executors, etc.
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A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. Hartford District, 3 Volumes, 1635-1750. 2241 pages. Charles W. Manwaring. Hartford, Connecticut. 1904
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories
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Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, . Junie Estelle Stewart King. (1933). Mrs. King has here abstracted the earliest wills of 38 Kentucky counties formed between the years 1780 and 1842 (with the exception of Crittenden County) and representing the state as a whole. The information given includes dates of instrument and probate, names of wife and children, and names of witnesses. The arrangement is county by county, each with its own index, with a general index at the rear of the book containing all the names mentioned in the text. The following Kentucky counties are within the scope of the work: Barren, Bourbon, Bullitt, Caldwell, Christian, Clark, Crittenden, Daviess, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Garrard, Greene, Hardin, Harrison, Henderson, Henry, Hopkins, Jefferson, Jessamine, Knox, Lincoln, Livingston, Logan, Madison, McCracken, Mercer, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Todd, Warren, Washington, and Woodford.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 1663 - 1760
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Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1663-1760]. J. Bryan Grimes. (1910). This invaluable work of reference contains abstracts of every will found in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina. While it covers the period 1663 to 1760, it does contain a few later wills. The work is arranged alphabetically according to the name of the testator. The abstracts give the name of the testator, place of residence, names of wife, children, legatees, witnesses, and probate officers, names of plantations mentioned, and remarkable items or noteworthy passages in wills. The extensive 200-page index contains all the names mentioned in the will abstracts--nearly 20,000! An appendix containing indexes to each of the will books is yet another outstanding feature of this monumental work.
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Abstract of Probate Records, Washington County, Ohio: Wills, Estates & Guardianships [1789-1855]. Bernice Graham and Elizabeth S. Cottle. (1982). When it was created in 1788, Washington County covered nearly half of the present state of Ohio. This volume contains abstracts of wills, estates, and guardian records of Washington County from 1789 to 1855--the earliest on record. Some 4,000 early Washington Countians are identified in all.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687 - 1745
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Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. H. L. Peter Rounds (1987). Here is a faithful rendering of all the wills, inventories, administrators' accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and other Bristol County probate records for the period in question. Researchers should note that Bristol County, Massachusetts, a magnet for colonists with Mayflower connections, contained the Rhode Island towns or areas of Bristol, Warren, Barrington, Little Compton, and Tiverton until 1747.
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Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County, Virginia, 1791-1842. Jean R. Bruns (1995). Bath County, in western Virginia, was formed from Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier counties in 1791. It is itself the parent county for part of Alleghany County, Virginia, and Pocahontas County, West Virginia. This work consists of genealogical abstracts of the oldest surviving wills and inventories for Bath County--but that's not all. Interspersed with the inheritance records are abstracts of bonds, powers of attorney, estate settlements, articles of agreement, and other records of genealogical import. In general the will abstracts furnish the name of the testator, his county of residence, the names of witnesses and executors, the date of probate, and the names and relationships to the testator of the heirs to the will. All told, nearly 15,000 early residents of Bath County appear in these pages.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742 - 1801
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Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742 - 1801. Junie Estelle Stewart King . (1936) The will abstracts generally consist of the name of the testator, dates of instrument and probate, and the names of the spouse, children and other family members, executors and witnesses. Inventory abstracts usually only have a reference to the administrator and the inventory date. Also included are the Rent Rolls of 1761 and 1774.
