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===Search for probate records in land records. === | ===Search for probate records in land records. === | ||
When individuals died, their land was usually sold or transferred to an heir or creditor. Usually a person's last will and testament was copied either into a deed book at a land registry office, or into a probate record at the probate court or surrogate court to make a land transfer official. Copies of the will or probate papers are rarely filed in both the land registry office and the court. But probate papers in the land registry are a hint that you may find some additional related papers in court records. | *'''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.''' | ||
*When individuals died, their land was usually sold or transferred to an heir or creditor. Usually a person's last will and testament was copied either into a deed book at a land registry office, or into a probate record at the probate court or surrogate court to make a land transfer official. | |||
*Copies of the will or probate papers are rarely filed in both the land registry office and the court. But probate papers in the land registry are a hint that you may find some additional related papers in court records. | |||
*The [[Ontario Land and Property#Abstract Index Books|Abstract Index Books]] (listed above) are the major indexes to wills recorded or memorialized in deed books. <br> | *The [[Ontario Land and Property#Abstract Index Books|Abstract Index Books]] (listed above) are the major indexes to wills recorded or memorialized in deed books. <br> | ||
*For other methods of accessing wills and probate records, see [[Ontario Probate Records]]. | *For other methods of accessing wills and probate records, see [[Ontario Probate Records]]. | ||
===Heir and Devisee Records=== | ===Heir and Devisee Records=== | ||
The government created the Heir and Devisee Commissions to settle disputes about who was entitled to receive the letters patent for a parcel of land. These records may explain a person's entitlement to land, such as military service or Loyalist ancestry. They may list the date of an application for land, the age of the applicant, and his place of birth. <ref>Archives of Ontario, ''From Grant to Patent: A Guide to Early Land Settlement Records, ca.1790 to ca.1850'', Archives of Ontario Research Guide 215 at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_215_grant_to_patent.pdf (accessed 23 July 2014).</ref><br> | The government created the Heir and Devisee Commissions to settle disputes about who was entitled to receive the letters patent for a parcel of land. These records may explain a person's entitlement to land, such as military service or Loyalist ancestry. They may list the date of an application for land, the age of the applicant, and his place of birth. <ref>Archives of Ontario, ''From Grant to Patent: A Guide to Early Land Settlement Records, ca.1790 to ca.1850'', Archives of Ontario Research Guide 215 at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_215_grant_to_patent.pdf (accessed 23 July 2014).</ref><br> | ||