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 *Olds, Fred A. ''An Abstract of North Carolina Wills from about 1760 to about 1800: Supplementing Grimes’ Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 1663 to 1760''. 1925. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1983. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=975.6+P28o 975.6 P28o]). The wills are listed by county, and there is no index. There is an index to the 1936 typescript on film:
-*''Index to Abstract of North Carolina Wills from about 1760 to About 1800'' prepared by Fred A. Olds. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1033627 1033627] items 1-2.)
+*''Index to Abstract of North Carolina Wills from about 1760 to About 1800'' prepared by Fred A. Olds. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=239954&disp=Index+to+abstract+of+North+Carolina+will%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1033627] items 1-2.)
 Between 1868 and 1966 wills were proved in the superior court of the county. The original will was sent to the clerk in each county court house and a copy may have been sent to the state archives.