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American Ancestors - New York Wills, 1626-1836 ^FREE

Database from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

FamilySearch - Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, 1665-1801 ^FREE

Volumes 1 through 17 are digitized.

FamilySearch - New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971 ^FREE

Images from probate records in various county Surrogate Courts in New York. The content of the probate records and their year range vary by county. Most records end in the 1920s with some indexes continuing to the year 1971. This collection does not include records from metropolitan New York at this time.

New York State Archives - Probate Record Pathfinder ^FREE

SAMPUBCO, New York Counties Will Book Testators Indexes, Probate

Indexes for: Wills and Heirs, Surrogate's Records / Probate / Estate Files, Guardianships, Naturalizations, Miscellaneous Orders and Decrees, Letters of Administration, Letters Testamentary, Petitions for Administration, Proofs of Wills, Cemetery Burials, Renunications, Biographies. You can order copies of the original source documents for a small fee. This service pertains only to entries found in the indexes on this web site.