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 *The [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Family_History_Library Family History Library]&nbsp;located in Salt Lake City, Utah has an excellent collection of Massachusetts probate records and indexes through 1880 or 1900 available on microfilm. These include probate dockets, wills, inventories, accounts, administrations, and guardianship records. For collection details see the [http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/#form=catalog Family History Library Catalog].&nbsp;Use the "Place Search" option to search for a specific Massachusetts county. Then look for&nbsp;topics labeled "Probate Records" or "Guardianship."
-For Suffolk County the library has 439 microfilms of probate records, dockets from 1636 to 1901, and an index to 1910. Indexes of the probate records of Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties have also been published. Each county has its own probate court.
-A series of pre-1670 Suffolk County will abstracts, which originally appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, have been reprinted in:
-*''Suffolk County Wills''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, Inc., 1984. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=298484&disp=Suffolk+County+wills%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 974.46 P2s; film 1320548 item 1].)
 Another source of early probate records is: