Ontario Probate Records: Difference between revisions
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==Archives of Ontario== | ==Archives of Ontario== | ||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/microfilm/c_efile.aspx Ontario Court of Probate and Surrogate Court Records: Wills and Estate Files - A Pathfinder] | *[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/microfilm/c_efile.aspx '''Ontario Court of Probate and Surrogate Court Records: Wills and Estate Files - A Pathfinder'''] | ||
::This pathfinder explains how to find wills (usually within estate files) that were filed with the '''Court of Probate''' and S'''urrogate Courts''' between the years '''1793 to 1970'''. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Archives of Ontario[edit | edit source]
- This pathfinder explains how to find wills (usually within estate files) that were filed with the Court of Probate and Surrogate Courts between the years 1793 to 1970.
History[edit | edit source]
- Probate records have been kept at the district or county level in Ontario by Surrogate Courts since 1793.
- Between 1793 and 1858, a central Probate Court of the province dealt with estates valued above a certain amount of money. When the Probate Court was abolished in 1858, the Surrogate Courts took over its functions.
- Registers are court order books recording petitions and grants of probate and administrators' bonds.
- In estate files you may find wills, inventories, and letters of administration.
- Wills involving land transactions were often not recorded with the court; but they were copied into deed books or general register books filed with registrars of deeds at land offices. See Ontario Land and Property.
- The original probate records are at the Archives of Ontario and at district land registry offices. The Family History Library and the Archives of Ontario have microfilm copies of many probate records for most Ontario counties. These include wills and indexes to 1930.
- As county and district boundaries changed, surrogate Court records from the original districts were taken over by one of the successor counties.