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=== Proved in Virginia  ===
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The best place to start '''pre-1800''' searches for wills and administrations is the index on the website of the [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas08&local_base=CLAS08 Library of Virginia].<ref>This index is an expanded version of Clayton Torrence's ''Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800'' (1930; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985). {{FHL|540441|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 P22t}}; {{FHL|371231|item|disp=FHL Film 29274}}. A few counties are not included.</ref>  
The best place to start '''pre-1800''' searches for wills and administrations is the index on the website of the [http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas08&local_base=CLAS08 Library of Virginia].<ref>This index is an expanded version of Clayton Torrence's ''Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800'' (1930; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985). {{FHL|371231|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 P22t}}; {{FHL|371231|item|disp=FHL Film 29274}}. A few counties are not included.</ref>  


Some counties, such as Northumberland, are not currently included and Torrence's classic volume will still prove useful for those areas:  
Some counties, such as Northumberland, are not currently included and Torrence's classic volume will still prove useful for those areas: