Virginia Probate Records: Difference between revisions

*Torrence, Clayton. ''Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800.'' 1930; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985. {{FHL|371231|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P22t}}; {{FHL|371231|item|disp=FS Library Film 29274}}. Online at: [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/564542-virginia-wills-and-administrations-1632-1800-an-index-of-wills-recorded-in-local-courts-of-virginia-1632-1800-and-of-administrations-on-estates-shown-by-inventories-of-the-estates-of-intestates-recorded-in-will-and-other-books-of-local-c?offset=1 FamilySearch Digital Library].

*Pippenger, Wesley E. ''Index to Virginia Estates, 1800-1865''. 10 vols. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Genealogical Society, 2001-2008. {{FHL|1035393|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P22p}}.

Original will books are stored at courthouses. Many are available on microfilm at the [[Library of Virginia]] and the [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library]. A guide for the Library of Virginia collections has been published.<ref>John Vogt, William T. Kethley and Virginia State Library and Archives (Richmond Virginia). ''Will and Estate Records in the Virginia State Library A Researcher's Guide'' (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., c1987). {{FHL|478868|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P23v}}.</ref>

| 1610-1857<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857'' (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989). {{FHL|60113|item|disp=FS Library Book 942 P27c}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48453 Ancestry] ($). </ref>  

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| bgcolor="#ffffcc" | 1611-1775<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''American Wills Proved in London, 1611-1775'' (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992). {{FHL|619298|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 P27ca}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48497 Ancestry] ($).</ref>  

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| 1611-1857<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''North American Wills Registered in London, 1611-1857'' (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007). {{FHL|1384506|item|disp=FS Library Book 942 P27c 2007}}.</ref>  

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*Dobson, David. ''Scottish-American Wills, 1650-1900''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991. {{FHL|588724|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 P22d}}; digital version on [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49335 Ancestry ($)]. Over 2,000 citations including name, occupation, residence, and date.<ref>Most of these references were taken from the Commissariat Court of Edinburgh (now the Sheriff Court of Edinburgh) and the ''Index to Personal Estates of Defuncts, 1846-1866.''</ref>

*Withington, Lothrop. ''Virginia Gleanings in England: Abstracts of 17th and 18th-Century English Wills and Administrations Relating to Virginia and Virginians. ''{{FHL|975.5 P28w}}. Online at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48515/ Ancestry] ($).

*Hopkins, William Lindsay. ''Some Wills from Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in the Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800''. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1987. {{FHL|537823|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P2h}}.

*Currer-Briggs, Noel. ''Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers, Abstracts of Wills, 1484-1798, and Legal Proceedings, 1560-1700, Relating to Early Virginia Families''. Three volumes in one. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1970. {{FHL|78100|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P2cb}}.

*King, George H.S. "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed," which was originally published in ''Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine'', was reprinted in Volume 4 of ''Genealogies of Virginia Families From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine''.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, "Review of ''Genealogies of Virginia Families From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine,''" in ''The Virginia Genealogist,'' Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1982):59. Online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/285/virginia-genealogist-the American Ancestors] by NEHGS ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 B2vg v. 26 (1982)}}</ref>

*McGhan, Judith. ''Virginia Will Records''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1982. {{FHL|488373|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 P2v}}. Excerpted and reprinted from ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'', the ''William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine'', and ''Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine''.