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Probate is the “court procedure by which a will is proved to be valid or invalid” and encompasses “all matters and proceedings pertaining to the administration of estates, guardianships, etc.”<ref>Henry Campbell Black, ''Black's Law Dictionary,'' 5th ed. (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1979), 1081, "probate."</ref> Genealogists often refer to 'Probate Records' as "All records which relate to the disposition of an estate," whether the person died leaving a will (testate) or not (intestate).<ref>Val. D. Greenwood, ''The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy,'' 3rd ed. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 309.</ref>  

For further information about the probate process, types of probate records, analyzing probate records, and to access a glossary of probate terms, see [[United States Probate Records|United States Probate Records]].  

Probate records from 1636–1771, originally filed in Portsmouth and Exeter, are now in the collection at the New Hampshire Records Management and Archives. (See Statewide Record Collections below.) For other counties, probate records are found in the county courthouse of each county.  

Records of towns along the Massachusetts border may be found in either [[Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] or [[New Hampshire Genealogy|New Hampshire]]. This is because New Hampshire was under Massachusetts from 1641 to 1679. The governor of Massachusetts was also the governor of New Hampshire to 1741. The boundaries with Massachusetts were not finally settled until 1739-41.  

New Hampshire Judicial Branch, [http://www.courts.state.nh.us/probate/index.htm Circuit Court Probate Division] site has information and forms pertaining to probate. It also has a list of the [http://www.courts.state.nh.us/courtlocations/index.htm#probate probate divisions], one for each county.<br>  

==== State and Local  ====

==== '''Statewide Record Collections'''  ====

&nbsp;*''New Hampshire Province Deeds and Probate Records from 1623-1772''.&nbsp; Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975. Microfilm of original records at the Historical Society in Concord, New Hampshire. Includes index.{{FHL|310825|item|disp=On 118 FHL films beginning with 1001345}}  

*''Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire''. Reprint, Bowie, Maryland.: Heritage Books, 1989–1990. ({{FHL|575906|item|disp=FHL book 974.2 P2p}}) These volumes are reprints of volumes 31–39 of the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers. They include abstracts of the wills and probate records between 1635–1771. The indexes include the names of those mentioned in the records, including the names of heirs, witnesses, and owners of nearby land.<br><br>Digital versions of volumes 31-39 (1635-1771) are available online through Internet Archives: <br>[http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep31newh vol. 31] (1635-1717), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep32newh vol. 32] (1718-1740), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep33newh vol. 33]&nbsp;(1741-1749), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep34newh vol. 34] (1750-1753),<br>[http://www.archive.org/details/newhampshireprov35none vol. 35] (1754-1756), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep36newh vol. 36] (1757-1760), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep37newh vol. 37] (1760-1763), [http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep38newh vol. 38]&nbsp;(1764-1767),<br>[http://www.archive.org/details/provincialstatep39newh vol. 39] (1767-1771)<br><br>Volumes 31-34 (1635-1753) are also available on [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7089 Ancestry] ($).

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