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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|540441|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 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: | ||
*Torrence, Clayton. ''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}}. | *Torrence, Clayton. ''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}}. | ||
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For the period '''after 1865''', it is necessary to search will indexes on a county-by-county basis. | For the period '''after 1865''', it is necessary to search will indexes on a county-by-county basis. | ||
Original will books are stored at courthouses. Many are available on microfilm at the [[Library of Virginia]] and the [[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=FHL Book 975.5 P23v}}.</ref> | Original will books are stored at courthouses. Many are available on microfilm at the [[Library of Virginia]] and the [[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=FHL Book 975.5 P23v}}.</ref> | ||
=== Proved in London === | === Proved in London === | ||