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Probate records in [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]] have been kept by the register of wills in each county from 1682 to the present. The | Probate records in [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]] have been kept by the register of wills in each county from 1682 to the present. The FamilySearch Library has probate indexes and records for all three counties, including wills, administrations, and guardian accounts to about 1850. Most of the original records are at the Delaware Public Archives. | ||
Published county court records for the 1600s refer to many probate matters. These can be found in the Library Catalog Place Search under DELAWARE, [COUNTY] - COURT RECORDS | Published county court records for the 1600s refer to many probate matters. These can be found in the Library Catalog Place Search under DELAWARE, [COUNTY] - COURT RECORDS | ||
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===Indexes=== | ===Indexes=== | ||
Virdin, Donald O. ''Colonial Delaware Wills and Estates to 1800: An Index''. Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, 1994. ( | Virdin, Donald O. ''Colonial Delaware Wills and Estates to 1800: An Index''. Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, 1994. (FamilySearch Library {{FSC|703638|title-id|disp=book 975.1 P22v}}.) This contains an alphabetical index of recorded wills of the entire state, listing name, date, county, book and page. | ||
*[http://archives.delaware.gov/collections/probate.shtml Probates Records Database ] These indexes are the primary finding aid to themanuscript probate records for all three Delaware counties from c. 1680 to c. 1925. They index the names of the deceased for whom the files were created. Contained in each index are the individual's name, and a date or dates. The dates correspond to the date of the documents within that individual's file and may refer to a date of the will or to a date for probate to begin. New Castle and Kent County Probates are on self service microfilm available in the Research Room of the Delaware State Archives, and Sussex is in the process of being filmed. Copies of this microfilm are also available for sale. | *[http://archives.delaware.gov/collections/probate.shtml Probates Records Database ] These indexes are the primary finding aid to themanuscript probate records for all three Delaware counties from c. 1680 to c. 1925. They index the names of the deceased for whom the files were created. Contained in each index are the individual's name, and a date or dates. The dates correspond to the date of the documents within that individual's file and may refer to a date of the will or to a date for probate to begin. New Castle and Kent County Probates are on self service microfilm available in the Research Room of the Delaware State Archives, and Sussex is in the process of being filmed. Copies of this microfilm are also available for sale. | ||
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*''A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800''. New York, NY: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1911; Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. (FS Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=216769&disp=A+Calendar+of+Delaware+wills%2C+New+Cast%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.11 S2n].) | *''A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800''. New York, NY: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1911; Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. (FS Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=216769&disp=A+Calendar+of+Delaware+wills%2C+New+Cast%20%20&columns=*,0,0 975.11 S2n].) | ||
*DeValinger, Leon. ''A Calendar of Kent County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800''. Dover, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1944. ( | *DeValinger, Leon. ''A Calendar of Kent County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800''. Dover, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1944. (FamilySearch Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=310017&disp=Calendar+of+Kent+County%2C+Delaware+prob++ film 1035860 item 4; fiche 6051248].) Facsimile reproduction of the original (FamilySearch Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=781065&disp=Calendar+of+Kent+County%2C+Delaware+prob%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 975.14 P28d].) | ||
*DeValinger, Leon. ''A Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800''. Dover, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1964. | *DeValinger, Leon. ''A Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800''. Dover, Delaware: Public Archives Commission, 1964. | ||
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