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*As county and district boundaries changed, surrogate Court records from the original districts were taken over by '''one of the successor counties.'''
*As county and district boundaries changed, surrogate Court records from the original districts were taken over by '''one of the successor counties.'''


==Indexes and Inventories==


The Archives of Ontario has a surname index to all existing Surrogate Court records before 1859 on [http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/microfilm/surrogate_court_index_rg22h.aspx their website here], which includes an online index and detailed descriptions on how to navigate the system.
This index can also be accessed in print using ''Surrogate Court Records Index, 1793-1858''. Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Genealogical Society, [198-?]. (Family History Library {{FHL|551408|title-id|disp=fiche 6334160 numbers 1-8}}.) <br>
An index to the original Probate Court records is:
Zuefelt, Bill, ed. ''Court of Probate: Registers and Estate Files at the Archives of Ontario, 1793-1859: An Index of Genealogical Research''. Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986. (Family History Library {{FHL|433312|title-id|disp=book 971.3 P2z}}.)
Indexes to the later 19th-century Surrogate Court records are being published county by county as a series:
Gibson, June. ''Surrogate Court Index of Ontario, Canada, 1859-1900''. Agincourt, Ontario: Generation Press, 1988-. (Family History Library {{FHL|971.3 P22g|disp=book 971.3 P22g}}.)




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