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[http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1457 The Ohio Constitution of 1851] provided for the formation of a probate court in each Ohio county. Marriage records previously kept by the Common Pleas Court were transferred to this court beginning in 1852. All probate functions, such as the proving and recording of wills, the appointment of administrators, executors and guardians, the appraisment and inventories of estates, bonds and the settling of accounts all came under the jurisdiction of the Probate Court. Some other records of genealogical value found in this court include birth and death registers (1867-1909), Delayed Registration and Correction of Births from 1941 forward ([http://books.google.com/books?id=3eeNTYoOw48C ''Hidden Sources'' By Laura Szucs Pfeiffer]), various forms of naturalization records (to 1906) and [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/845.html Mothers' Pensions] from 1914 to ca. 1930's. The Probate Court also presided over matters regarding incompetancies, lunacy, insanity, adoptions and juvenile delinquencies. These record types are generally regarded as not public records but can nevertheless be sometimes found in earlier court journal or minute books before such records were segregated and recorded into their own record books.

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