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Abstracts of Wills and Other Records, Currituck and Dare Counties, North Carolina (1663-1850). Gordon C. Jones. (1958). Currituck County was formed in 1670 as a precinct of Old Albemarle County, and portions of Currituck were later taken to form Tyrrell (1729), Hyde (1745), and Dare (1870). This work contains abstracts of all known Currituck County wills of the period 1663-1850, showing residence, locations of property, names of wives, children, executors, and witnesses, and relevant dates of probate and examination. It also contains a list of names taken from deeds of the period 1676-1725; jurymen of 1723; tax lists of 1735, 1755, and 1779; militia lists of 1758; and heads of families from the census of 1790. With an index containing approximately 11,500 references, this is widely recognized as the premier reference book for records of the Old Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina.
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Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800 and 1800-1850. Ruth Herndon Shields. (1957, 1966). Orange County was formed in 1752 and for many years embraced a large section of central North Carolina, including part or all of the following present-day counties: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham, and Wake. Abstracting the wills of Orange County to 1850 was the project of the Genealogical Records Committee of the Davie Poplar Chapter of the NSDAR. The abstracts were originally published in two separate volumes, but they are brought together now in a single volume for the convenience of the user. The abstracts, numbering many hundreds and referring to thousands of related individuals, all of whom are alphabetically indexed, generally include such information as the name of the testator, names of heirs and executors, references to property, and dates of probate. The book further contains records of 280 marriages not shown in the Orange County marriage bonds. This is an unusually valuable publication for descendants of Orange County pioneers.
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Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757 - 1800. Junie Estelle Stewart King . (1940) These probate records include the names of the testator, spouse, children, family members, executors and witnesses, the dates of the will and its probate, and its location. Supplementing this are a 1761 rent roll, lists of militia officers and pensioners, and inscriptions from four cemeteries. The new index has 4,250 entries.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Costilla County, Colorado Probate, 1876-1914 $
This index was compiled from the Probate Records filed in the courts of Costilla County. The information contained in the original archive record generally shows the name of the estate, date of filing, case number, name of the deceased, date of death, a description of real and personal property, value of the estate, tax liability due, names of next of kin and may include the will.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Eagle County, Colorado Probate, 1884-1935 $
This index was compiled from the Probate Records filed in the courts of Eagle County. The information contained in the original archive record generally shows the name of the estate, date of filing, case number, name of the deceased, date of death, a description of real and personal property, value of the estate, tax liability due, names of next of kin and may include the will.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Index to Alabama Wills, 1808 - 1870 $
Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870. Alabama Society, DAR (1955). This is an index to 9,000 wills filed and probated in Alabama between 1808 and 1870. A project of the Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, it was originally compiled at the suggestion of the Department of Archives and History of the State of Alabama. The actual compilation was undertaken by a team of DAR chapter and state committees and is based on wills filed in the Department of Archives and History. The index itself is a model of simplicity, giving, in alphabetical order, the name of the testator, the county of probate, the identity of the record source (usually a will book), the date of the book, and the page number; in sum, all that the researcher might require in securing further information from the original records.
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Indian Wills, 1911-1921. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Book Seven. Jeff Bowen . (2007) In accordance with federal statutes enacted in 1910 and 1913, the Law and, subsequently, the Probate Divisions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs were responsible for determining the heirs of deceased Indian trust allottees. Ultimately, Native Americans submitted more than 2,500 pages of wills and probate records to the Bureau. These records span the period 1911 to 1921 and, with a few exceptions, pertain to Indian families living in the Plains and several western states. This is the seventh book in the series of Indian Wills transcriptions by Mr. Bowen. As a rule, the documents identify the names of the testator, residence, heirs, a description of any real estate transferred in the will, names of executors and witnesses, and other particulars commonly found in probate records. Tribes predominating in Book Seven include the Cayuse, Chippewa, Coeur d?Alene, Comanche, Crow, Flathead, Kaw, Nez Perce, Omaha, Sac & Fox, Uintah & Ouray, Umatilla, and Winnebago.
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Indian Wills, 1911-1921. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Book Five. Jeff Bowen . (2007) Native Americans submitted more than 2,500 pages of wills and probate records to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. These records span the period 1911 to 1921 and, with a few exceptions, pertain to Indian families living in the Plains and several western states. Author Jeff Bowen, who has been transcribing these wills for publication, has here added a fifth volume to his series Indian Wills, 1911-1921. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. As a rule, the records included identify the names of the testator, residence, heirs, a description of any real estate transferred in the will, names of executors and witnesses, and other particulars commonly found in probate records. The majority of the wills are of western origin, and the following tribes predominate in them: Apache, Chippewa, Comanche, Kiowa, Klamath, Omaha, Osage, and Winnebago. In all, genealogists will discover references to about 1,200 individuals in these pages, every one of whom is referenced in the complete name index at the back of the volume.
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Maryland. Index to the Wills of St. Mary's County, 1662-1960 and Somerset County, 1664-1955. Joan Hume. (1970). All of the will records for the colonial period in Maryland were preserved in a central probate office in Annapolis by whatever name it was called. Following the American Revolution, these wills were sent to the Register of Wills of each Maryland county, to be recorded there and later returned to Annapolis. The central file of colonial wills was calendared, and an all-name index to them was prepared by James Magruder (and ultimately published by Genealogical Publishing Co.). The county sets of colonial wills have also been indexed by the local Register of Wills offices, and in a number of cases those indexes refer to people not found in Magruder's index because some papers were lost during the transfer of the wills. Of even greater importance, none of the wills for the post-colonial period in Maryland have been worked on at all, with the exception of those for St. Mary's County, which were printed in alphabetical order in the periodical Chronicles of St. Mary's. This work rectifies these shortcomings for the Maryland counties of St. Mary's and Somerset by providing a complete index to the wills recorded in those counties. The index to St. Mary's County wills, which is based on the one which appeared in the Chronicles of St. Mary's between 1961 and 1968, is arranged alphabetically by the name of the testator and gives the date and source of the original will. The Somerset index is arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically. Thus, all testators whose surnames begin with A and who died between 1664 and 1667 are grouped together, followed by those whose surnames begin with A and died between 1667 and 1750, and so on. Altogether, about 5,000 wills for St. Mary's County and 7,500 wills for Somerset County, many of them dated prior to 1800, are indexed.
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790). Brent H. Holcomb. (1980). The will abstracts in this volume, 1749-1790, are based on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as well as upon the extant returns of wills and estates of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of them provide the name of the testator, date of the will, names and relationships of all heirs to the estate (sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of the estate, names of executors, and, usually, the date of probate.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Mesa County, Colorado Probate, 1883-1900 $
This index was compiled from the Probate Records filed in the courts of Mesa County. The information contained in the original archive record generally shows the name of the estate, date of filing, case number, name of the deceased, date of death, a description of real and personal property, value of the estate, tax liability due, names of next of kin and may include the will.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Volume 1 $
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. New Jersey Department of State. (1912-13). This monumental work indexes New Jersey wills and probate records from 1663 through 1900. It contains more than 185,000 entries, arranged alphabetically under the name of the testator and intestate for each of the twenty-one present-day counties of New Jersey, with the number of the will, the year of probate, and references to papers and records connected therewith. Also included at the back of the third volume are indexes to unrecorded wills and New Jersey prerogative wills. This work supersedes the two volumes printed in Trenton in 1901 under the general title of Index of Wills, Office of Secretary of State, State of New Jersey. All of the wills indexed in our reprint volumes are now in the Bureau of Archives and History in the New Jersey State Library in Trenton, and hence these indexes serve as a valuable guide to further information.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Volume 2 $
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. New Jersey Department of State. (1912-13). This monumental work indexes New Jersey wills and probate records from 1663 through 1900. It contains more than 185,000 entries, arranged alphabetically under the name of the testator and intestate for each of the twenty-one present-day counties of New Jersey, with the number of the will, the year of probate, and references to papers and records connected therewith. Also included at the back of the third volume are indexes to unrecorded wills and New Jersey prerogative wills. This work supersedes the two volumes printed in Trenton in 1901 under the general title of Index of Wills, Office of Secretary of State, State of New Jersey. All of the wills indexed in our reprint volumes are now in the Bureau of Archives and History in the New Jersey State Library in Trenton, and hence these indexes serve as a valuable guide to further information.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Volume 3 $
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. New Jersey Department of State. (1912-13). This monumental work indexes New Jersey wills and probate records from 1663 through 1900. It contains more than 185,000 entries, arranged alphabetically under the name of the testator and intestate for each of the twenty-one present-day counties of New Jersey, with the number of the will, the year of probate, and references to papers and records connected therewith. Also included at the back of the third volume are indexes to unrecorded wills and New Jersey prerogative wills. This work supersedes the two volumes printed in Trenton in 1901 under the general title of Index of Wills, Office of Secretary of State, State of New Jersey. All of the wills indexed in our reprint volumes are now in the Bureau of Archives and History in the New Jersey State Library in Trenton, and hence these indexes serve as a valuable guide to further information.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - New Jersey Index of Wills, Volume 2 $
New Jersey Index of Wills, Volume 2. (1989)
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WorldVitalRecords.com - New Jersey Index of Wills, Volume 3 $
New Jersey Index of Wills, Volume 3. David S. Crater. (1913)
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index $
Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Pitkin County, Colorado Probate, 1881-1953 $
This index was compiled from the Probate Records filed in the courts of Pitkin County. The information contained in the original archive record generally shows the name of the estate, date of filing, case number, name of the deceased, date of death, a description of real and personal property, value of the estate, tax liability due, names of next of kin and may include the will.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635 - 1664, Volume 1 $
Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. 1916-1920. These three volumes have collected in one place all probate records for the towns that constitute Essex County. Wills and inventories are provided in full transcription, while all other documents, including letters of administration, estate settlements and the like, appear in full or in abstract. For the period covered by these volumes, there was no separate probate court, and most of the documents included here were entered in volumes devoted to a variety of other legal matters, such as colony and county court minutes, town and county deed volumes, and even town meeting minutes. From 1643 to 1679, the towns of Salisbury, Haverhill and Amesbury were in old Norfolk County, and were incorporated into Essex County in the latter year, upon the creation of the colony of New Hampshire. Probate records for these towns, found mostly in the records of old Norfolk County, have been included here as well. The records collected here are essential for the study of the first three generations of Essex County families.
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WorldVitalRecords.com - Suffolk County Wills $
Suffolk County Wills. (2005)
